Causal Networks or Causal Islands? The Representation of Mechanisms and the Transitivity of Causal Judgment
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Causal Networks or Causal Islands? The Representation of Mechanisms and the Transitivity of Causal Judgment
Knowledge of mechanisms is critical for causal reasoning. We contrasted two possible organizations of causal knowledge—an interconnected causal network, where events are causally connected without any boundaries delineating discrete mechanisms; or a set of disparate mechanisms—causal islands—such that events in different mechanisms are not thought to be related even when they belong to the same...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Science
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0364-0213
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12213