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    Failures of screening-off in the cited cases therefore in... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Events A and B that occur in almost completely overlapping spatial regions will be correlated, and a common cause may not screen them off

    Failures of screening-off in the cited cases therefore indict the choice of causal variables rather than the Common Cause Principle itself.

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    • 1.The Common Cause Principle is a formal principle about conditional independence, not about which variables are causally relevant to a domain.
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    • 2.When screening-off fails, we can always identify a missing variable that, if included, would restore the principle's predictions.
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    • 3.Blaming variable selection preserves the principle's explanatory power while allowing domain-specific refinement of causal models.
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    • 1.If the principle requires perfect variable selection to apply, it becomes unfalsifiable and loses predictive or explanatory force.
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    • 2.The burden of identifying missing variables should fall on the principle itself if it claims universal validity, not on practitioners.
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    • 3.Systematic screening-off failures across diverse domains suggest the principle may have genuine limits, not merely implementation problems.
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