Sufficient Causes: On Oxygen, Matches, and Fires

Abstract We demonstrate how counterfactuals can be used to compute the probability that one event was/is a sufficient cause of another, and how counterfactuals emerge organically from basic scientific knowledge, rather than manipulative experiments. We contrast this demonstration with the potential outcome framework and address the distinction between causes and enablers.

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Year of publication:	2019
Authors:	Pearl, Judea
Published in:	Journal of Causal Inference. - De Gruyter, ISSN 2193-3685, ZDB-ID 2742570-8. - Vol. 7.2019, 2
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Subject:	Counterfactuals \| sufficient causes \| explanation \| abduction

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	research-article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1515/jci-2019-0026 [DOI]
Source:	Other ZBW resources

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