The Common Cause Principle
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992:227 - 237 (1992)
| Abstract | The common cause principle states that correlations have prior common causes which screen off those correlations. I argue that the common cause principle is false in many circumstances, some of which are very general. I then suggest that more restricted versions of the common cause principle might hold, and I prove such a restricted version. | |||||||||
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