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    RCCP (Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle) is violated — Carmelics
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    RCCP (Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle) is violated

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    • 3.The process is genuinely chancy, so no such determining event exists
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    so A and B are correlated. No earlier event can screen off this correlation unless it determines that A and B will occur. Since the process is genuinely chancy, there is no such event. Hence RCCP is violated.
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