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(1993) Scientific philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer.
What is commonly called Reichenbach’s “Principle of the Common Cause” is not a general criterion for a common cause, as many philosophers nowadays suppose. Examples include W. Salmon in his accounts of causal processes and Bas van Fraassen in his new book on quantum mechanics, in which he argues that the quantum world has no causal structure.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2964-2_7
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Cartwright, N. (1993)., Marks and probabilities: two ways to find causal structure, in F. Stadler (ed.), Scientific philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 113-119.
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