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    Challenges→The purple flame case is not a genuine counterexample to the transitivity of causation, because the contrast situations at each end of the two causal statements do not match.

    The purple flame case tracks the production relation: there is a continuous causal process from the salt to the ignition, yet the dependence relation fails because ignition would have occurred via other means.

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    Key Terms

    causal process(used in philosophy of causation)
    A series of events where one thing happens because of another, like dominoes falling in a line where each one knocks down the next.
    counterfactual dependence(Lewis's 1973 analysis of causation)
    Event B is counterfactually dependent on event A if and only if the counterfactual 'Had A not occurred, B would not have occurred' is true
    dependence relation(used in metaphysics)
    A relationship where one thing relies on another thing to exist or happen—if the second thing didn't happen, the first couldn't happen either.
    production relation(used in metaphysics and causation theory)
    A connection between two things where one thing directly makes or creates the other through a continuous chain of cause and effect.
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