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Direct linkWolff, Phillip; Barbey, Aron K.; Hausknecht, Matthew – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2010
Causation by omission is instantiated when an effect occurs from an absence, as in "The absence of nicotine causes withdrawal" or "Not watering the plant caused it to wilt." The phenomenon has been viewed as an insurmountable problem for process theories of causation, which specify causation in terms of conserved quantities, like force, but not…
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