Extrapolation and the Russo–Williamson thesis.
A particular tradition in medicine claims that a variety of evidence is helpful in determining whether an observed correlation is causal. In line with this tradition, it has been claimed that establishing a causal claim in medicine requires both probabilistic and mechanistic evidence. This claim has...
| Published in: | Synthese Vol. 196; no. 8; pp. 3251 - 3263 |
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Springer Nature
Aug2019
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