Objection-Based Causal Networks

This paper introduces the notion of objection-based causal networks. which resemble probabilistic causal networks ex­ cept that tht:>y are quant.ified using ob­ jections. An objection is a logical sen­ tence and denotes a condition under which a causal dependency does not exist. Objection-based causal net.works enjoy al­ most all the properties that make proba­ bilistic causal networks popular, with the added advantage that objections are, ar­ guably. more int.uitive than probabilities.