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    Challenges→Contrastivism about causation is a distinct position from contrastivism about explanation

    If the causal pathway that explains 'why P rather than Q' is determined by the contrast, then contrasts in explanation are doing genuine causal individuation, collapsing the distinction.

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    Collapsing the distinction(in logic and argumentation)
    Removing or eliminating the difference between two separate ideas, so they become impossible to tell apart.
    causal individuation(in philosophy of causation)
    The process of identifying and distinguishing what makes one cause different from another based on what it actually causes.
    causal pathway(in action theory)
    The chain of events that directly connects a person's beliefs and desires to their actual behavior—basically the cause-and-effect route from thought to action.
    contrast(used when discussing comparative questions like 'why this rather than that?')
    In this context, it means the comparison or alternative being considered—asking 'why P instead of Q' sets up Q as a contrast to P.
    contrast in explanation

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    (in epistemology (theory of explanation))
    The idea that to fully explain why something happened, you need to explain why it happened *instead of* some other possibility that could have occurred.

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