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THE LOGIC OF CAUSATION

© Avi Sion, 1999, 2003. All rights reserved.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

ABSTRACT

 

 Phase One: Macroanalysis.

 

1.   THE PARADIGM OF CAUSATION

1.    Causation.

2.    The Paradigmic Determination.

 

2.   THE GENERIC DETERMINATIONS

1.    Strong Determinations.

2.    Parallelism of Strongs. 

3.    Weak Determinations.

4.    Parallelism of Weaks.  

5.    The Four Genera of Causation.  

6.    Negations of Causation.  

 

3.   THE SPECIFIC DETERMINATIONS

1.    The Species of Causation. 

2.    The Joint determinations. 

3.    The Significance of Certain Findings.

 

4.   IMMEDIATE INFERENCES

1.    Oppositions. 

2.    Eductions. 

3.    The Directions of Causation. 

 

5.    CAUSATIVE SYLLOGISM

1.    Causal or Effectual Chains.

2.    Some Instructive Examples. 

3.    Figures and Moods. 

 

6.    LIST OF POSITIVE MOODS

1.    Valid and Invalid Moods. 

2.    Moods in Figure 1.

3.    Moods in Figure 2.  

4.    Moods in Figure 3.

 

7.    REDUCTION OF POSITIVE MOODS

1.    Reduction.  

2.    Reductions in Figure 1. 

3.    Reductions in Figure 2. 

4.    Reductions in Figure 3. 

 

8.   MATRICIAL ANALYSES 

1.    Matricial Analysis. 

2.    Crucial Matricial Analyses in Figure 1.  

3.    Crucial Matricial Analyses in Figure 2.  

4.    Crucial Matricial Analyses in Figure 3. 

 

9.   SQUEEZING OUT MORE INFORMATION

1.    The Interactions of Determinations.

2.    Negative Moods.  

3.    Negative Conclusions from Positive Moods.

4.    Imperfect Moods.

 

10.    WRAPPING UP PHASE ONE

1.    Highlights of Findings. 

2.    Modes of Causation.    

3.    Gaps and Loose Ends. 

 

  Phase Two: Microanalysis.

 

11.  PIECEMEAL MICROANALYSIS

1.    Binary Coding and Unraveling.

2.    The Generic Determinations.

3.    Contraction and Expansion.

4.    Intersection, Nullification and Merger.

5.    Negation.

 

12.   SYSTEMATIC MICROANALYSIS

1.    Grand Matrices.

2.    Moduses in a Two-Item Framework.

3.    Catalogue of Moduses, for Three Items.

4.    Enumeration of Moduses, for Three Items.

5.    Comparing Frameworks.

 

13.  SOME MORE MICROANALYSES

1.    Relatives Weaks.

2.    Items of Negative Polarity in Two-Item Framework.

3.    Items of Negative Polarity in Three-Item Framework.

4.    Categoricals and Conditionals.

 

14.  MAIN THREE-ITEM SYLLOGISMS

1.    Applying Microanalysis to Syllogism.

2.    The Moduses of Premises.

3.    The Moduses of Conclusions.

4.    Dealing with Vaguer Propositions.

 

15.  SOME MORE THREE-ITEM SYLLOGISMS

1.    Special Cases of Three-Item Syllogism.

2.    Dealing with Negatives.

 

16.   OUTSTANDING ISSUES

1.    Four-Item Syllogism.

2.    On Laws of Causation.

3.    Interdependence.

4.    Other Features of Causation Worthy of Study.

 

Epilogue - TO BE CONTINUED

 

Appendices   

 

1.   J. S. MILL'S METHODS

Preamble.

1.    The Joint Method of Agreement and Difference. 

2.    The Method of Agreement. 

3.    The Method of Difference. 

4.    The Method of Residues.

5.    The Method of Concomitant Variations.

Concluding Remarks. 

 

2.   GRAND MATRICES

1.    Catalogue of moduses for the four conjunctions of two items (P, R).

2.    Catalogue of moduses for the eight conjunctions of three items (P, Q, R).

 

REFERENCES

About "Causal Logic"

 

See also: Ruminations, chapter 8.

 

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