Full Idea
Another argument against the view that there is no basis for selecting 'the' cause is that we have no concept of causation without such a selection.
Gist of Idea
Selecting 'the' cause must have a basis; there is no causation without such a selection
Source
Jonathan Schaffer (The Metaphysics of Causation [2007], 2.3)
Book Reference
'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.28
A Reaction
Good. Otherwise we could only state the conditions preceding an event, and then every event that occurred at any given moment in a region would have the same cause. How can 'the' cause be necessary, and yet capricious?