This concept is represented by a set of structural equations developed by Halpern and Pearl. Houdini observing a coin flip is used to demonstrate the impossibility of one form of this concept in Max Black’s“bilking argument.” The example of a sergeant shouting is used to demonstrate how “trumping” can lead to a“redundant” form of this concept by David Lewis, who proposed analyzing this concept in terms of (*) counterfactuals. David Hume asserted we understand this relation merely through “constant conjunction.” Aristotle’s Metaphysics proposed the formal, final, material, and efficient types of this relation. For 10 points, Hume used striking billiard balls to analyze what relation that can lead to an effect, not to be confused with correlation? ■END■
ANSWER: causation [accept word forms such as causality or cause and effect; accept backwards causation or retrocausality or word forms]
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