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| Causal explanation: A causal explanation provides a reason or justification for why a particular event or phenomenon occurs, focusing on the underlying causes and their relationship to the observed outcome. See also Causality, Causes, Effects._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Marvin Minsky on Causal Explanation - Dictionary of Arguments
I 128 Cause/causation/Minsky: a causal explanation must be brief. Unless an explanation is compact, we cannot use it as a prediction. >Explanation, >Prediction. Dependence/”everything depends on everything”: There can't be any causes in a world in which everything that happens depends more or less equally upon everything else that happens. To know the cause of a phenomenon is to know, at least in principle, how to change or control some aspects of some entities without affecting all the rest. >Causality, >Cause, >Effect. The most useful kinds of causes our minds can discern are predictable relationships between the actions we can take and the changes we can sense. >Reality, >World/Thinking._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Minsky I Marvin Minsky The Society of Mind New York 1985 Minsky II Marvin Minsky Semantic Information Processing Cambridge, MA 2003 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28