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    It is not the case that Russo and Williamson's mechanistic account establishes that causal claims require evidential warrant for both difference-making and continuous process in the specific target population.

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    • 1.The dual-evidence requirement may be too stringent, excluding legitimate causal claims in fields where continuous processes are unobservable or unmeasurable.
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    • 2.Difference-making evidence alone has successfully grounded causal inference in epidemiology and policy without complete mechanistic understanding.
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    • 3.Requiring population-specific validation conflicts with parsimony and transferability of causal knowledge across relevantly similar populations.
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    • 1.Difference-making alone is insufficient: causes that don't occur in target populations lack evidential warrant despite theoretical plausibility.
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    • 2.Continuous process evidence prevents mere correlation from qualifying as causation without mechanistic understanding of how effects are produced.
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    • 3.Population-specificity is epistemically necessary because causal mechanisms vary across contexts, requiring local validation not universal generalization.
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