Preemption cases (Schaffer's 'trumping': two wizards cast spells, only the senior wizard's spell takes effect) show causation without any counterfactual dependence between cause and effect.

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Preemption cases(in causality and philosophy of science): Thought experiments where two potential causes exist, but one prevents the other from actually doing anything—like two archers aiming at a target, but the first arrow hits before the second one can.
Schaffer, Jonathan(as a reference to a specific philosopher's work): A contemporary philosopher who studies causation and developed the 'trumping' example to challenge how we think about what counts as a cause.
causation(Lewis's counterfactual theory of causation): Event C causes event E if and only if there exists a chain C, D1, …, Dn, E such that each member (except C) is counterfactually dependent on the preceding event; causation is the ancestral of counterfactual dependence
counterfactual dependence(Lewis's 1973 analysis of causation): Event B is counterfactually dependent on event A if and only if the counterfactual 'Had A not occurred, B would not have occurred' is true

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