Without contrastive explanatory power, a causal principle cannot ground the counterfactual dependency relationships that Hart and Honoré identify as essential to medical causation.

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Causal Principle(Used as a foundational premise in deductive cosmological arguments for the existence of God): The general metaphysical principle that every event or contingent thing has a cause, which underlies the deductive cosmological argument
Contrastive explanatory power(as used in philosophy of causation): The ability of an explanation to show not just why something happened, but also why something *else* didn't happen instead—like explaining why a patient died from poison rather than from natural causes.
Ground (or grounding)(explaining what provides the basis for requirements): To serve as the foundation or reason for something; to explain why something is true or obligatory.
Hart and Honoré(as philosophers referenced in legal analysis): H.L.A. Hart and A.M. Honoré were two influential legal philosophers who studied how we assign blame and responsibility in law. They wrote an important book called 'Causation in the Law' that examined when one person can be held legally responsible for harm caused to another.

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