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There are many points of view from which one finds it appropriate to look at the notion of causality. These include what I call the logical (linguistic), probabilistic (stochastic), analytic (physical, system-theoretic), and geometric (relativity-theoretic) viewpoints. In all of them, throughout the rather long and confusing intellectual history of the subject, the main intention has been to explicate and then to answer in the best possible way the following two basic questions:
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What curious entities, usually called causes and effects, are supposed to be in a causal relationship?
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What kind of relation, operator, or perhaps something else, called causal relation or causal operator, is associated with or attributed to the causal entities?
The research presented here was supported by the NSF Grant GS-2936.
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Domotor, Z. (1973). Causal Models and Space-Time Geometries. In: Suppes, P. (eds) Space, Time and Geometry. Synthese Library, vol 56. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2650-5_1
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