A cause that is sufficient for producing an effect at one level of being need not be sufficient to account for all the structural conditions that make that effect the kind of thing it is.

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Level of being(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of mind): Different ways of looking at or organizing reality—for example, the physical level (atoms and molecules) versus the biological level (living organisms) versus the mental level (thoughts and feelings).
Structural conditions(Modern conception of mathematical theories, illustrated by Dedekind 1888): General conditions characterizing mathematical theories that might be had in common by any number of different ordered domains.
Sufficient: # Sufficient Something is sufficient when it is enough to achieve a goal or make something true. For example, having a valid driver's license is sufficient to legally drive a car—you don't need anything else. In everyday language, we use "sufficient" to mean "adequate" or "meeting the minimum requirement needed."
cause(Philosophical definition of causation requiring both sufficiency and necessity of the cause relative to its effect): An event or state of things such that (a) if it happens or exists, the effect must happen or exist even if no further conditions are fulfilled, and (b) the effect cannot happen or exist unless the cause happens or exists.

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