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    Challenges→Many conditions cannot produce many effects as a unified causal relation

    If each component of a complex cause produces one component of a complex effect, the relation reduces to many instances of one cause producing one effect, not a genuinely many-to-many relation

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    Reduces to(describes the relationship between identity and organization)
    When one thing can be completely explained by or broken down into something simpler; here, the idea that personal identity is nothing more than organizational structure.
    complex cause(in causation and philosophy of science)
    A cause made up of multiple separate parts or factors working together, rather than a single simple cause.
    complex effect(in causation and philosophy of science)
    A result or outcome that has multiple separate parts or components, rather than being a single simple result.

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    many-to-many relation(in logic and causation theory)
    A situation where multiple causes work together in a special way to create multiple effects that couldn't be broken down into separate cause-and-effect pairs.
    one cause producing one effect(in causation theory)
    The simplest type of causation where a single cause directly creates a single result, with no interaction between multiple causes.

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    At the heart of Jñānagarbha’s argument against the tenability of causality is his argument that none of the possible ways of looking at the relation of conditions and their effects are workable. There are four possibilities. Either many conditions produce a single effect, or many conditions produce many effects, or a single condition produces many effects, or a single condition produces a single effect. His presentation of an explanation for why each of these possibilities is untenable is in pla

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