Causality and causal explanation
Causal explanation beyond the gene: manipulation and causality in epigenetics
... crucial causal knowledge for model building and modification in observational data ...further causal reasoning to unify methods from different fields of ...on causal relationships to infer ...
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A conversational model of causal explanation
... Hilton and Slugoski (1986) n o t e d that p e ople bring real- world expectancies w i t h them to the attribution task. They based their analysis on the criticisms made of the M i l lian definition of causality g ...
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Causal Explanation Analysis on Social Media
... Limitations. We had an inevitable limitation on the size of our dataset, since there is no other causality dataset over social media and the anno- tation required an intensive iterative process. This might have ...
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Explanation in agent-based modelling: Functions, causality or mechanisms?
... a causal explanation ...the causal laws at work in a crash situation and know how the constituent parts ...full explanation of any macro- ...the explanation cannot be a complete ...
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Causal Depth: Aspects of a Scientific Realist Approach to Causal Explanation contra Humean Empiricism
... quantum causality and particularly non-locality after Bell's inequality was used by Aspect to show that non-locality did exist at the sub-atomic ...of causal explanations that can be compared ...
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Social Mechanisms for Causal Explanation in Social Theory Based IS Research
... developing causal claims by tracing social mechanisms that bring about IS ...and causality in the development of ...of causal propositions in the premises of general theoretical ...how ...
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Moving towards hybridity in causal explanation: the example of citizen participation
... uncertain causal relationships (Connell & Klem, 2000; Papadopoulos & Warin, ...of causality be strengthened rather than diminished through such heterogeneity? Attempts at collective and collaborative ...
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Causation, complexity, and the concert: the pragmatics of causal explanation in international relations
... of causal complexity, various kinds may be distinguished, including: (i) multi-causality (the presence of multiple causes); (ii) the absence of necessary and sufficient conditions; (iii) equifinality ...
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Local Causality, Probability and Explanation
... local, causal completions of quantum mechanics by suitable measure- ments of spin or polarization components on pairs of separated systems repre- sented by entangled quantum ...local, causal theory to ...
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Causality, teleology and explanation in social sciences
... and explanation, a plethora of concepts ...a causal explanatory level, c) a teleological explicative level and d) a prescriptive teleological ...on causality, teleology and practical reason as a ...
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Regularities and Causality; Generalizations and Causal Explanations
... MJ’s explanation of one or more channel openings does not derive from their application to any other ...good explanation for any given case unless the same causes operated in the same ways in enough other ...
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Causality and causal inference in epidemiology: the need for a pluralistic approach.
... biochemical explanation of why smoking causes lung cancer: it was found in vitro that benzo[a]pyrenes from tobacco smoke bind to mutation hotspots of a p53 suppressor gene in cultured lung ...establish ...
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Counterfactuals and Causal Explanation
... "scientific explanation" of the motion of the balls following a collision procceeds by deriving that motion from information about their masses and velocity before the collision, some assumption about the ...
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Causal and Constitutive Explanation Compared
... same causal coin, not completely different ...discuss explanation, I want to raise an interesting possible ontological parallel between causation and ...different causal capacities of the system in ...
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Non-causal explanation in science
... to causal concepts comes from in the first ...that causal manipulations become embedded in our way of ...that causal notions make sense outside of a human way of ...
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Levels of Reasons and Causal Explanation
... not causal explanations. His main example of an equilibrium explanation was Fisher ’s answer to the question of why the ratio of males to females in the current adult human population is (very close to) 1 ...
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Distinguishing topological and causal explanation
... same explanation can be provided in different systems with the same causal ...is causal and captures a kind of higher- level “causal pattern” or causal topology that reoccurs in various ...
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The Causal Economy Approach to Scientific Explanation
... circumstances. Causal Economy will pick out the back-up factors as more explanatory than the actual cause, since they provide greater stability boost, and that might intuitively seem ...the Causal Economy ...
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Some Varieties of Non-Causal Explanation
... the explanation also provides information about the many features of the situation that do not matter for (are irrelevant to) whether it is possible to traverse each bridge exactly once: it does not matter where ...
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The Case of Regularity in Mechanistic Causal Explanation
... There is thus a systematic ambiguity in whether a “mechanism” is a type or token. On one hand, the term can be used to pick out a single individual causal chain in the world. When a particular neuron fires on a ...
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