On Preemption and Overdetermination in Formal Theories of Causality

One of the key challenges when looking for the causes of a complex event is to determine the causal status of factors that are neither individually necessary nor individually sufficient to produce that event. In order to reason about how such factors should be taken into account, we need a vocabular...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sjur K Dyrkolbotn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2017-10-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.03390v1