PHIL 114 Quiz: Causal Arguments
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Causal statements: the concept of causation applies to situations in which some event makes a second event happen, explicitly causal statements contain the word causes, e. g. The slippery road caused the accident: implicitly causal statements make causal claims without using the word cause in any form, e. g. Singular and general causal statements: singular causal statements are about specific events, general causal statements don"t refer to any particular or specific events or occurrences. Partial and complete causes: usually when we call something the cause of something else, we mean that it is a particularly important, unusual, or salient cause of the effect in question. It is a mistake to reject a typical causal claim on the grounds that the alleged cause is not by itself sufficient to bring about the effect. The standard form of general causal statements: general causal statements usually apply to a particular population, standard form: c causes e in population p, causal factor, effect, population.
