Causally productive activities
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This paper suggests and discusses an answer to the following question: What distinguishes causal from non-causal or coincidental cooccurrences? The answer derives from Elizabeth Anscombe’s idea that causality is a highly abstract concept whose meaning derives from our understanding of specific causally productive activities (e.g., pulling, scraping, burning), and from her rejection of the assumption that causality can be informatively understood in terms of actual or counterfactual regularities. ! 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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