Causation: Answer to Lewis

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What is the author’s argument in this passage?

What might be a reasonable objection to this argument?

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Lewis’s argument determines that there is a chain of events chronologically such that A causes B such that B depends on the causal effect of A. According to Lewis, an event happens as a result of another as long as the counterfactual (“if the epiphenomenon e had not occurred, then its cause c would not have occurred either”) (Lewis, 1973, p. 565) is true.

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