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Causes and effects can be given as events or as facts.
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ‘Seek simplicity, and distrust it’
Whitehead, The Concept of Nature
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The intensional character of causal statements was brought out by D.H. Mellor in ‘The Singularly Affecting Facts of Causation’, in Mind, Morality and Metaphysics, Essays in honour of J.J.C. Smart (Blackwell, 1987).
Bertrand Russell ‘On the Notion of Cause’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. XIII (1912) pp. 1–26, reprinted in Mysticism and Logic (numerous editions).
C.J. Ducasse, ‘On the Nature and Observability of the Causal Relation’, Journal of Philosophy Vol. 23 (1926), pp. 57–68;
reprinted in E. Sosa (ed.) Causation and Conditionals (London, 1975).
The case is referred to by Hart and Honore in Causation in the Law (Oxford, 1959), pp. 90, 98–9, 265.
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Emmet, D. (1992). Events and Facts in Causation. In: The Passage of Nature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12644-6_3
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