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causal pluralism: a standalone construct

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Philosophy of science

view that the word cause picks out many different kinds of relation, so no single analysis captures all causal claims.

In philosophy of science, causal pluralism refers to view that the word cause picks out many different kinds of relation, so no single analysis captures all causal claims. This meaning comes from Cartwright (2004) in Philosophy of Science.[1]

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  1. Cartwright, N. (2004). Causation: One Word, Many Things. Philosophy of Science, 71(5), 805-819. https://doi.org/10.1086/426771

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