A sufficient condition that smuggles the analysandum into its analysans via causal constraints fails the non-circularity requirement that Nozick and Shoemaker themselves endorse as necessary for reductive accounts.
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The rule that your explanation can't secretly use the very thing you're trying to explain—like you can't define 'justice' by saying 'justice is what is just,' because that's circular.
reductive accounts(metaphysics and epistemology)
Explanations that break something complex down into simpler, more basic parts—like explaining how a computer works by describing its circuits and chips.
sufficient condition(Used in the context of whether intrinsic properties can define species membership)
A property whose presence guarantees membership in or applicability of a category, such that having the property entails belonging to the species or class