Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle
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Description: By Frank Arntzenius of Rutgers.
Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle First published Thu Sep 23, 1999; substantive revision Wed Aug 18, 2010 Suppose that two geysers, about one mile apart, erupt at irregular intervals, but usually erupt almost exactly at the same time. One would suspect that they come from a common source, or at least that there is a common cause of their eruptions. And this common cause surely acts before both eruptions take place. This idea, that simultaneous correlated events must have prior common causes, was first made precise by Hans Reichenbach (Reichenbach 1956). It can be used to infer the existence of unobserved and unobservable events, and to infer causal relations from statistical relations. Unfortunately it does not appear to be universally valid, nor is there agreement as to the circumstances in which it is valid.
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