Lexicon of Arguments

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I 28f
Association/Association Law/Hume/Cartwright: one factor explains the other, if there is only a certain privileged relation between them - Symmetry.
Problem: >reference class problem - unlike causality: Asymmetry: cause and effect cannot be interchanged.
I 32
E.g. Symmetry: conditional probability: it's growth is symmetric: P(E I C) > P(E) iff. P(C I E) > P(C).
>Symmetries, Reference classes, >Reference Systems, >Probability, >Explanation, >Causal explanation, >Causality.

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