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Professor Russell very justifiably finds much that is obscure in my remarks about causation in Examination of McTaggart’s Philosophy Vol. I, Chapter XIII. He tries to lighten the darkness by restating what I may have had in mind in terms of the notions of necessary condition and sufficient condition. I am sure that that is the right course. I have pursued it myself in later writings. I think that the simplest way for me to clear up the matter is to begin by giving some definitions and making some statements based on the contents of pp. 15 to 18 of the first of my papers entitled, ‘Hr. von Wright on the Logic of Induction I–III’, in Mind (1944).
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Editor’s note: This chapter is reprinted from P.A. Schilpp, editor, The Philosophy of C.D. Broad (The Library of Living Philosophers, 1959), pp. 741–764. It constitutes a part of Broad’s comments on the essays included in Prof. Schilpp’s volume. In the part which is reproduced here, Professor Broad discusses, in addition to Professor von Wright’s essay (reprinted in the present volume), also an essay by L.J. Russell entitled `Substance and Cause in Broad’s Philosophy’ (op. cit. pp. 263–280) and one by Everett J. Nelson entitled `Some Ontological Presuppositions in Broad’s Philosophy’ (op. cit. pp. 71–93). Although these papers do not deal with induction and probability directly, many of Broad’s comments on them are of interest here. It is hoped that Broad’s answer to Professors Russell and Nelson are intelligible although their papers are not reproduced here.
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Broad, C.D. (1968). Replies to My Critics. In: Induction, Probability, and Causation. Synthese Library, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1868-4_11
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