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    Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle presupposes a well-d... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Events A and B that occur in almost completely overlapping spatial regions will be correlated, and a common cause may not screen them off

    Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle presupposes a well-defined event ontology where causes and effects occupy distinct, separable spacetime regions.

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    • 1.Classical physics describes causation via deterministic laws linking distinct events at separable spacetime points, supporting event ontology.
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    • 2.Without distinguishing cause from effect spatiotemporally, we cannot formulate the Common Cause Principle's core insight about explaining correlations.
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    • 3.Experimental practice in science presupposes we can isolate and identify causal variables in distinct experimental regions.
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    • 1.Quantum entanglement violates spatial separability yet exhibits correlations—suggesting causation needn't presuppose distinct spacetime regions.
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    • 2.Process ontologies and field theories treat causation as continuous becoming rather than discrete event sequences, challenging event-based assumptions.
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    • 3.The Common Cause Principle may succeed heuristically without requiring strict metaphysical commitment to separable event ontology.
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