Sikorski, Michal and van Dongen, Noah and Sprenger, Jan (2019) Causal Conditionals, Tendency Causal Claims and Statistical Relevance. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Indicative conditionals and tendency causal claims are closely related to each other (e.g., Frosch and Byrne 2012), but despite these connections, they are usually studied separately. A unifiying framework could consist in their dependence on probabilistic factors such as statistical relevance, but theoretical research along these lines (e.g., Eells 1991; Douven 2008, 2016) needs to be strengthened by more empirical results. This paper closes that gap and presents empirical results on how judgments on tendency causal claims and indicative conditionals are driven
by probabilistic factors, and how these factors (in particular statistical relevance) differ in their predictive power for both causal and conditional claims.
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Keywords: | indicative conditionals; causal conditionals; tendency causal claims; Adams’ Thesis; causal strength; statistical relevance | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Psychology > Judgment and Decision Making Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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Depositing User: | Jan Sprenger | ||||||||||||
Date Deposited: | 16 Dec 2019 18:23 | ||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 16 Dec 2019 18:23 | ||||||||||||
Item ID: | 16732 | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Psychology > Judgment and Decision Making Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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Date: | December 2019 | ||||||||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16732 |
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