A universal generalization that is neither known nor epistemically operative in grounding a judgment cannot rescue Davidson's extensionalism from the charge that causation is genuinely non-nomological.
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causation(Lewis's counterfactual theory of causation)
Event C causes event E if and only if there exists a chain C, D1, …, Dn, E such that each member (except C) is counterfactually dependent on the preceding event; causation is the ancestral of counterfactual dependence
extensionalism(Presupposition of Quine's circularity argument against analyticity)
The philosophical commitment that the meaning or identity of expressions is determined solely by their extension (the set of things they apply to), rather than by intension or sense
universal generalization(what we assume when we say a cause led to an effect)
A statement that claims something is true for all cases or all members of a group, rather than just one specific example.