Re: better simulating actual FriAM

Posted by Frank Wimberly-2 on
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The counterfactual definition of cause that you offer has been widely discussed and has been found to be inadequate.  

Jon, give me an "other thing" that may be a cause and I'll bet that I can explain how it's an event.  Or how you can construe it as one.

There is a book called "Entailment" by Anderson and Belnap that I think Glen should read.  I haven't read it but I think causes and logical implications are examples.

Frank

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 5:26 PM <[hidden email]> wrote:

I think the relation between cause and entailment goes something like this:

If cause means, event A is always followed by event B and B never occurs in
the absence of A (for instance)

Then the statement that A causes B, taken with the statement "A has
occurred", entails the occurrence of B. 

But boy, howdy, am I NOT a logician!

N



Nicholas Thompson
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Clark University
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-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] better simulating actual FriAM

Thanks, that sounds right. Are we interested in similar relations like
entailment?



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