The counterfactual definition of cause that you offer has been widely discussed and has been found to be inadequate.
Jon, give me an "other thing" that may be a cause and I'll bet that I can explain how it's an event. Or how you can construe it as one. There is a book called "Entailment" by Anderson and Belnap that I think Glen should read. I haven't read it but I think causes and logical implications are examples. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 5:26 PM <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the relation between cause and entailment goes something like this: > > If cause means, event A is always followed by event B and B never occurs in > the absence of A (for instance) > > Then the statement that A causes B, taken with the statement "A has > occurred", entails the occurrence of B. > > But boy, howdy, am I NOT a logician! > > N > > > > Nicholas Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University > thompnicks...@gmail.com > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of Jon Zingale > Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 5:20 PM > To: friam@redfish.com > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] better simulating actual FriAM > > Thanks, that sounds right. Are we interested in similar relations like > entailment? > > > > -- > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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