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Stochastic independence, causal independence, and shieldability

Author(s) -

Wolfgang Spohn

Publication year - 1980

Publication title -

journal of philosophical logic

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.783

H-Index - 39

eISSN - 1573-0433

pISSN - 0022-3611

DOI - 10.1007/bf00258078

Subject(s) - probabilistic logic , independence (probability theory) , explication , causality (physics) , conditional independence , epistemology , mathematical economics , mathematics , computer science , econometrics , philosophy , statistics , physics , quantum mechanics

The aim of the paper is to explicate the concept of causal independence between sets of factors and Reichenbach's screening-off-relation in probabilistic terms along the lines of Suppes' probabilistic theory of causality (1970). The probabilistic concept central to this task is that of conditional stochastic independence. The adequacy of the explication is supported by proving some theorems about the explicata which correspond to our intuitions about the explicanda.

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