8 ideas
8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
7091 | The argument from analogy is not a strong inference, since the other being might be an actor or a robot [Grayling] |
8430 | Causal statements are used to explain, to predict, to control, to attribute responsibility, and in theories [Kim] |
10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |
8396 | Many counterfactuals have nothing to do with causation [Kim, by Tooley] |
8429 | Counterfactuals can express four other relations between events, apart from causation [Kim] |
8428 | Causation is not the only dependency relation expressed by counterfactuals [Kim] |
4781 | Many counterfactual truths do not imply causation ('if yesterday wasn't Monday, it isn't Tuesday') [Kim, by Psillos] |