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Statistical Models of Causal Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Kenneth M. Sayre
Kenneth M. Sayre*
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame
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Abstract

A model of causation is presented which shares the advantages of Reichenbach's definition in terms of the screening-off relation, but which has the added advantage of distinguishing cause and effect without reference to temporal directionality. This model is defined in terms of the masking relation, which in turn is defined in terms of the equivocation relation of communication theory.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , June 1977 , pp. 203 - 214
Copyright
Copyright © 1977 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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