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I 38f
Objective Probability / Cartwright: not the same as relative frequency. - o. prblty: so to speak the opposite of the apparent correlation.
The question what are the probabilities, is never based on causal considerations.
Nevertheless, causal statements can be reduced to probability statements if there are additional empirical facts (to secure the asymmetries).
Karl Pearson/Cartwright: Pearson thesis: probability should remain theory-free.
>Theories, >Theory ladenness, >Causality, >Causal explanation.

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