Causal separatists like Railton have articulated substantive accounts of the causal-mechanical structure that makes causal explanations truth-apt, providing a discharge strategy unavailable to grounding separatists.

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Causal separatists(philosophical approach to understanding causation): Philosophers who believe that causal explanations (explanations about why things happen) are fundamentally different from other types of explanations and should be studied separately.
Causal-mechanical structure(what makes causal explanations accurate): The underlying system of how causes actually produce effects in the world—like the gears and levers that make something happen.
Discharge strategy(a method available to one group of philosophers but not another): A philosophical solution or approach that 'solves' a problem by removing or resolving it in a particular way.
Grounding separatists(contrasted with causal separatists in the statement): Philosophers who believe that 'grounding' (the fundamental basis for why something is true) is different from causation and should be studied separately.

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