Cartwright argues that difference-making accounts identify causes only relative to a privileged set of background conditions, making causalclaims context-dependent rather than universal.
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(as referring to which background conditions matter most)
A special, chosen collection of things that are treated as more important or basic than everything else.
background conditions(Perry's objection to success semantics)
Conditions required for an action's success (e.g., gravity, oxygen concentration) about which the agent may have no beliefs at all
universal(Argument for the generality of Turing machines)
A computing system capable of simulating any other computing system of the same or lesser power; used here to describe Turing machines as the most general model of computation.