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    The claim therefore conflates being part of a sufficient ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A condition is causally operative sufficient for some effect only if, given the laws of nature, whenever the condition is present it is causally necessary that the effect occurs.

    The claim therefore conflates being part of a sufficient causal complex with being a sufficient condition on its own, which Mackie's analysis explicitly rejects.

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    • 1.Mackie's INUS conditions explicitly distinguish parts of sufficient complexes from sufficient conditions themselves.
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    • 2.Confusing these categories undermines causal analysis by attributing full sufficiency to partial causal factors.
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    • 3.The distinction preserves the intuition that causes rarely work in isolation without other background conditions.
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    • 1.The line between 'part of sufficient complex' and 'sufficient condition' may be pragmatically rather than metaphysically real.
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    • 2.In practice, isolating any single factor as part of a complex requires already assuming what counts as background versus cause.
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    • 3.Mackie's analysis itself relies on contextual judgments that the distinction between part and sufficiency cannot fully capture.
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