Causal explanations
Regularities and Causality; Generalizations and Causal Explanations
... iv. ..Describing typical features of the operation of a mechanism. The generalizations in all of the forgoing examples do epistemic rather than explanatory work. But general descriptions of mechanisms, their parts, the ...
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How people explain their own and others' behavior: A theory of lay causal explanations
... of causal attributions have often been seen as competing with covariational attribution models (Lalljee and Abelson, 1983; Ahn et ...provide causal hypotheses and covariation information may serve to select ...
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Does the Counterfactual Theory of Explanation Apply to Non-Causal Explanations in Metaphysics?
... seminal causal accounts of explanation can be expressed as follows: to explain some phenomenon P just is to identify the (type or token level) causes of ...non-causal explanations are a direct ...
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The Depression Schema: How Labels, Features, and Causal Explanations Affect Lay Conceptions of Depression
... The present work seeks to understand the role of language and causal explanations for depression. It builds on work on conceptual knowledge in cognitive science as well as debates on labeling in the context ...
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Are There Non-Causal Explanations (of Particular Events)?
... these explanations are ...partial causal explanation appears in (T3), and that notion will be important in what ...partial causal explanation that tells just part of the story about E’s causal ...
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Causal explanations of miscarriage amongst Qataris
... Medical institutions and training establishments are in- creasingly acknowledging the presence and importance of medical beliefs and practices outside the biomedical paradigm. Understanding how patients and those around ...
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Abstract versus causal explanations?
... only causal but also clearly abstract, because it rests on a non-fundamental law (Coulomb’s law) that leaves out many microphysical causal ...of causal explanation as non-abstract applies only to a ...
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Teachers' and students' causal explanations for classroom misbehavior: similarities and differences
... the causal explanations for classroom misbehavior, particularly those were agreed by both teachers and students, were student- ...distinctive explanations for the causes of misbehavior, which might ...
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The Impact of Causal Explanations on Outcome in People Experiencing Psychosis: A Systematic Review
... psychosocial explanations tended to be those based within specific developing ...supernatural causal beliefs over alternative ...medical explanations in their sample from India (Charles et ...the ...
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Causal and Non-Causal Explanations of Artificial Intelligence
... circumstances that indicate the presence of racial or gender bias, including granting or denying loan applications (Fuster et al. 2018), deciding which prisoners are eligible for parole (Khademi and Honavar 2019), and ...
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Life With and Without Coding: Two Methods for Early-Stage Data Analysis in Qualitative Research Aiming at Causal Explanations
... Even though qualitative content analysis supports the analysis of the phrasing and the position of information in principle by keeping links to the original texts, accessing this information is more awkward than ...
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The Influence of Causal Explanations and Diagnostic Labeling on Psychology Students’ Beliefs About Treatments, Prognosis, Dangerousness and Unpredictability in Schizophrenia
... Students who identified schizophrenia more frequently mentioned heredity and chemical imbalance as causal factors, and less frequently reported family conflicts and stress. These findings suggest that, as ...
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On Explanations from 'Geometry of Motion'
... non-causal explanations that turn on “geometry of motion” in the way brought out by the ...kinematical explanations really do furnish genuinely non-causal explanations by virtue of ...
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Do Students See the “Selection” in Organic Evolution? A Critical Review of the Causal Structure of Student Explanations
... “functional explanations” as well—an individual has a trait for the function it ...between causal and functional ...need-based explanations, although not purely mechanistic or natural, are still ...
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Exclusions, Explanations, and Exceptions: On the Causal and Lawlike Status of the Competitive Exclusion Principle
... higher-level causal explanation to count as explanatory at all and, second, addressing how good the explanations offered ...the causal explanations are that the model offers to ...provide ...
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Expressivism and realist explanations
... for causal explanations involving normative properties: if normative properties play a causal role in the explanations of most true normative beliefs, doesn’t that entail that normative ...
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The Fertility Transition: Economic Explanations
... A second problem with the woman’s wage variable is that it is observed only for a self- selected fraction of women who work for a wage in the observation period, and this fraction has tended to rise over time in many ...
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A Model For Generating Better Explanations
... If 3 alternatives that do help achieve the intended goal and are also compatible with the higher domain goals then Message: However, you can [alternatives] Else Message: No alternative[r] ...
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Causal Conditionals, Tendency Causal Claims and Statistical Relevance
... One of the limitations of our study is the exclusion of counterfactual conditionals, whose causal character has been studied extensively in the literature (Lewis 1973 a,b; Pearl 2000 ; Schulz 2017 ). We conjecture ...
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DISCLOSURE EXPLANATIONS DOCUMENT UPLOAD
... Based upon activities that occurred while you exercised control over an organization, has any State or federal regulatory agency or foreign financial regulatory authority or self-regu[r] ...
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