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---
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Santa Fe, NMOn 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
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
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Thanks, that sounds right. Are we interested in similar relations like
entailment?
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