Causation and Explanation

Peter Frederick Strawson

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This chapter discusses the relation between causation and explanation. Causality is perceived as a natural relation that holds in the natural world between particular events or circumstance and it is often associated with explanation. But if causality is a relation then explanation may not be related to it. These two levels of relationship are easily confused in philosophical thought because (they are not clearly distinguished from ordinary thought, and they are clearly distinguished in ordinary thought because doing so would often serve no practical purpose.).

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