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    The 'weak sense' of causal sufficiency is under-specified... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Theistic intuitions support the claim that God's creative volitions are necessarily a causally sufficient condition (in the weak sense) of the existence of every other concrete object.

    The 'weak sense' of causal sufficiency is under-specified: if other necessary conditions are permitted, God's volition may be merely one among several jointly sufficient causes, not a privileged one.

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    Key Terms

    God's volition(discussing theological arguments about God's role in causation)
    God's will or act of choosing; the philosophical concept of God's ability to decide and make things happen.
    Jointly sufficient causes(explaining when multiple factors work together to cause an effect)
    Multiple things that together have enough power to make something happen, even though none of them alone could do it—like how both oxygen AND fuel AND heat together cause fire.
    Necessary conditions(as used in logic and philosophy)
    Something that must be present for something else to happen—like how oxygen is a necessary condition for fire to exist.
    Privileged(suggesting that body size shouldn't be treated as more important than other properties)
    Given special treatment or considered more important or fundamental than other things.

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    Under-specified(critiquing whether the definition of causal sufficiency is complete)
    Not clearly defined or detailed enough; leaving out important details that would make the meaning complete.
    Weak sense (vs. strong sense)(as used in analyzing conditions and causation)
    A weaker version means something doesn't fully or completely guarantee a result, while a strong sense means it definitely and completely does. Think of it as the difference between 'probably causes' (weak) and 'always causes' (strong).
    causal sufficiency(Causal modeling and directed acyclic graphs (DAGs))
    A set of variables V is causally sufficient if there is no variable W omitted from V such that, if added to V, it would be a direct cause of two variables already in V.

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