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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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