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    It is not the case that Thread-colour is not a cause of cloth, despite invariably preceding cloth.

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    • 1.Humean regularity theory holds that invariable succession is both necessary and sufficient for causal status, with no additional 'independence' criterion.
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    • 2.The Nyāya restriction that antecedence must be 'established otherwise' introduces an epistemic condition into a metaphysical relation, conflating causal discovery with causal constitution.
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    • 3.If thread-colour invariably and universally precedes cloth without exception, excluding it as a cause requires a principled metaphysical distinction that bare regularity theory does not supply.
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    • 1.Mackie's INUS condition analysis entails that a cause need only be an insufficient but necessary part of an unnecessary but sufficient condition, not an independent antecedent.
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    • 2.Thread-colour, as a property of the very threads whose arrangement constitutes cloth, may qualify as an INUS condition since altering the colour-bearing thread alters what cloth is produced.
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    • 3.The Navya-Nyāya criterion of non-dependence on another entity illicitly excludes relational and property-level causal contributors that modern counterfactual frameworks recognise as genuine causes.
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    • 1.A causal relation requires not merely invariable conjunction but that the antecedent not be 'established otherwise'.
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    • 2.Thread-colour precedes cloth only because thread-colour occurs with thread, and thread is known to precede cloth.
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    • 3.Knowledge of thread-colour is not independently required to anticipate the production of cloth.
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