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Productive causation and compositionality

2025-01-08

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<p>According to counterfactual theories of causal judgment, people judge causation by evaluating the consequences of counterfactual interventions on their representations of the world. What is the format of these representations? Research on causal generalization suggests that people hold `invariant' representations of causal relationships that can be flexibly composed together. We suggest that people can compute...

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Literature Corpus work: 525552dc-563f-5e5f-88f6-9992deb8b962
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/nsqpk

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