Causation and Persistence: A Theory of Causation by Douglas Ehring

By Douglas Ehring

Ehring indicates the inadequacy of obtained theories of causation, and, introducing conceptual units of his personal, offers a unconditionally new account of causation because the patience over the years of person houses, or "tropes."

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