Hall's distinction between production and dependence identifies transitivity failures as revealing a genuine conceptual bifurcation in our causal concept, not a linguistic mismatch.

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Causal concept(the philosophical understanding of how causation works): The general idea or definition we use when we talk about causation—what we mean by 'one thing causes another.'
Conceptual bifurcation(suggesting production and dependence are truly different kinds of causation): A split into two fundamentally different concepts—the idea that what we think is one single concept is actually two separate ones.
Dependence(as a relationship being compared to entailment): When one thing relies on or is determined by another—for example, the height of a shadow depends on the position of the sun.
Hall(as referenced for his distinction between dependence and production): Ned Hall is a contemporary philosopher who studies causation—the question of what it really means for one thing to cause another.

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