“For the believer in generative causality the existence of the statistics is but the first step in a long process of investigation which ends only when the nature of the things involved has been found out and the reasons for the statistics thus elicited. Science follows the generative rather than the successionist theory of causality.”
– Rom Harré (1972, p. 118)
Harre, R. (1972). The philosophies of science. Oxford University Press.
Suggested citation: Fugard, A. (2024, November 30). “Generative” causation [blog post]. https://andifugard.info/generative-causation/
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