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    A condition is causally operative sufficient for some eff... — Carmelics
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    Supports→A causal basis for a disposition D is a property or property-complex P such that, given the laws of nature, whenever an object x has P and undergoes the characteristic stimulus of D, it is causally necessary that x exhibits the characteristic manifestation of D.

    A condition is causally operative sufficient for some effect only if, given the laws of nature, whenever the condition is present it is causally necessary that the effect occurs.

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    • A causally operative sufficient condition must guarantee its effect under the laws of nature.
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    • 1.Probabilistic causation, as developed by Suppes and Cartwright, shows that causes can raise the probability of effects without nomologically necessitating them.
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    • 2.Quantum-mechanical indeterminacy provides physically grounded cases where a causally operative condition obtains yet the effect genuinely may not occur.
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    • 3.A theory of causation that excludes all indeterministic causal relations is empirically inadequate given the actual structure of our best physical theories.
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    • 1.Mackie's INUS account establishes that causes are insufficient but necessary parts of conditions that are themselves unnecessary but sufficient for effects.
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    • 2.If a condition need only be an INUS component of a sufficient condition, then no single causally operative condition must by itself nomologically necessitate the effect.
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    • 3.The claim therefore conflates being part of a sufficient causal complex with being a sufficient condition on its own, which Mackie's analysis explicitly rejects.
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    We will not here consider cases of probabilistic dispositions; the ‘surefire’ or deterministic cases are difficult enough. A clarification is needed of the concept of causally operative sufficient condition. One thing we can say for sure about it is that a condition is causally operative sufficient for some effect only if, given the laws of nature, whenever the condition is present it is causally necessary that the effect occurs. PPJ then entails the following account of causal basis: a causal b

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