Causal Proportionality as an Ontic and Epistemic Concept.
This paper is concerned with the content of the causal proportionality constraint. It investigates two general versions of the constraint, namely "horizontal" and "vertical" proportionality. Moreover, it discusses whether proportionality is considered an ontic or an epistemic, i.e. explanatory, cons...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 88; no. 6; pp. 2291 - 2314 |
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Springer Nature
Aug2023
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