dependences

Since there are multiple dependences, you'd have to backtrack to some point.

David Heddle Reviews Ken Miller's Talk 2008

This element consists in the idea that causation is a structural relation that underlies and supports causal dependences.

My Shasta Daisy 2009

But the counterfactuals it employs do not simply state dependences of whether one event occurs on whether another event occurs.

My Shasta Daisy 2009

The counterfactuals state dependences of whether, when, and how one event occurs on whether, when, and how another event occurs.

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For, as we have seen, c will not be connected to e by a chain of causal dependences.

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This qualification is important if spurious non-causal dependences are to be ruled out.

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There are several possible ways of interpreting counterfactuals; and some interpretations give rise to spurious non-causal dependences between events.

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Nor is there a chain of stepwise dependences running cause to effect, because there is no event intermediate between Suzy's throw and the shattering that links them up into a chain of dependences.

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Now if we evaluate counterfactual dependences with counterfactuals centred on the default course of evolution rather than the actual course of evolution, we can see that the bodyguard's action counterfactually depends on the assassin's action and the king's survival depends on the bodyguard's action, but the king's survival doesn't depend on the assassin's action.

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If counterfactual dependences centred on the default course of evolution are taken to indicate causal relations, these counterfactual dependences accurately reflect our intuitive causal judgements.

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