What great timing! One of the best philosophy comics on the web right now
is "Existential Comics." This very week they took a swipe at "causation."
Here is an adventure of Sherlock Hume:
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/212
I suspect that the best I can do to contribute beyond that is to try
Also Known As: Beware equating experience with existence.
On 11/21/2017 02:00 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> Beware the tendency to think that if you can't immediately measure something
> then it doesn't exist.
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Nick,
As I recall, there is more than one problem with the counterfactual
definition of causation. I think once when we talked about this some years
ago I told you that the definition of causation that my CMU colleagues find
most useful is: A causes B if the occurrence of A causes a change in
Hi, Frank,
Sorry I let this slip by the first time.
I have never understood how one can square the counterfactual definition of
causality
Hume … concluded with a statement that A causes B if B would not have occurred
unless A had occurred.
With the Pragamatic Maxim
