'Causation and the Law'
The Wind and the Waves: The Evolution of Florida Property Insurance Law in Response to Multiple-Causation Hurricane Damage
... concurrent causation coverage determi- nations: “the reasonable expectations of the insurer and the insured in the first-party property loss portion of a homeowner’s policy ...
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Testing for causation in tort law
... Introduction: Overdetermination and the but-for test There is a widespread intuition that to say that one thing causes another is to make a certain counterfactual claim; roughly, the cla[r] ...
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Study of Victimization؛Causation and Explanation About Efficiency of Codes of the Elderlies in Iranian Criminal Law
... current law of Iran indicates its incorrect and inefficient situation regarding elderly ...Iranian law regarding the elderly is a common criminal policy and this shortcoming is obvious in Iran current ...
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School Liability for Peer Sexual Harassment after Davis: Shifting from Intent to Causation in Discrimination Law
... 97. 2000) (finding that notice of a harasser's sexual harassment and abuse of persons other than the plaintiff does not establish notice of the harasser's propensity to harass [r] ...
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Intelligent Design and Tort Law: Partners in a Unified Theory of Causation
... The rule of Section 451, relieving the human actor where an extraordinary force of nature has produced a different kind of harm and thus has taken over the chain of [r] ...
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Montana's Law of Causation: History, Analysis and a Proposal for Change
... Even in the Busta decision, the court recognized the necessi- ty of a limiting element, by citing to the following assertion: "Once it is established that the de[r] ...
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Hume, Newton and Malebranche on Causation
... for the orbits of the outer planets. That planet turned out to be Neptune (Feynman, 1965: p. 15). However, unexplained deviations of orbital paths of planetary motion are not always explained by discovering new objects. ...
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Moore, Causation, Counterfactuals, and Responsibility
... of law, we should make it clear that we are substituting for the intuitive idea that we are responsible primarily for what we cause to occur another and quite different idea—the idea that we are often responsible ...
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Causation does not explain contextuality
... Non-contextuality no-go theorems are not merely of foundational interest but can also serve as security proofs for a range of simple cryptographic scenarios [10, 11], can herald a quantum advantage for computation [12], ...
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The dual nature of causation : two necessary and jointly sufficient conditions
... Regarding what it takes to be an extrapolation basis at all, the following criterion needs to be satisfied: an extrapolation basis must contain a pattern that can reasonably be extended to the case at hand. In practice, ...
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Process causation and quantum physics
... gas law the resulting increase in its temperature is to be accompanied by a corresponding increase in its volume and at the same time, a decrease in the ...gas law does not express an explicit “temporal” ...
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Causation in Science
... otherwise different backgrounds and commitments. To take just one example, in his very interesting (2007), Maudlin describes a procedure for evaluating counterfactuals in connection with what he calls fundamental laws of ...
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Medical Causation Testimony in Texas: Possibility Versus Probability
... Medical Causation Testimony in Texas Possibility Versus Probability SMU Law Review Volume 23 | Issue 4 Article 2 1969 Medical Causation Testimony in Texas Possibility Versus Probability David C Mussle[.] ...
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A difference-making account of causation
... controversial. Causation is a case in ...“The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is ...
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Toxic Tort Causation in Asbestos Claims The Texas Supreme Court Creates New Causation Requirement and Leaves Numerous Victims without a Remedy
... Toxic Tort Causation in Asbestos Claims The Texas Supreme Court Creates New Causation Requirement and Leaves Numerous Victims without a Remedy SMU Law Review Volume 61 | Issue 2 Article 7 2008 Toxic T[.] ...
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Harm and causation
... Most current theories posit a close relation between causation and counterfactuals. This reflects the common emphasis on causation’s difference-making aspect – intuitively, to be a cause, something must make a ...
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Toxic Tort Litigation and the Causation Element: Is There Any Hope of Recognition
... Toxic Tort Litigation and the Causation Element Is There Any Hope of Recognition SMU Law Review Volume 40 | Issue 3 Article 3 1986 Toxic Tort Litigation and the Causation Element Is There Any Hope of[.] ...
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Social Mechanisms and Social Causation
... (where ε is the angle of incidence and ε’ the angle of refraction; Figure 4). Then a change in the quantifiable parameters - m, ε, ε’ - will change δ from a primary to a secondary rainbow. Second, a number of relations ...
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Causation With a Human Face
... a law of nature – that is, no one took seriously the possibility that the equation might be true but only accidentally so, in the manner in which the relationship between parental income and child’s scholastic ...
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To what extent do the culture dimensions of tightness/looseness effect the decision making process of entrepreneurs : a study in the Netherlands and Germany
... Exploratory factor analysis is a statistical method and it is used to find the underlying structure of a relatively large set of variables. The goal of this statistical method is to identify the underlying relationships ...
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