Uncovering constitutive relevance relations in mechanisms.
In this paper I argue that constitutive relevance relations in mechanisms behave like a special kind of causal relation in at least one important respect: Under suitable circumstances constitutive relevance relations produce the Markov factorization. Based on this observation one may wonder whether...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 174; no. 11; pp. 2645 - 2667 |
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