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causation by omission: a standalone construct

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Experimental philosophy

evidence that people judge a failure to act as a cause of an outcome mainly when the omission violates a norm.

In experimental philosophy, causation by omission refers to evidence that people judge a failure to act as a cause of an outcome mainly when the omission violates a norm. This meaning comes from Henne (2016) in Australasian Journal of Philosophy.[1]

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References

Henne, P., Pinillos, Á., & De Brigard, F. (2016). Cause by Omission and Norm: Not Watering Plants. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 95(2), 270-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2016.1182567

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