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    It is not the case 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.

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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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    • A causally operative sufficient condition must guarantee its effect under the laws of nature.
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