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Lewis V 195
Individuation/redundant causation/Peter van Inwagen: thesis: an event that happens as a product of multiple causes could not have happened without being the product of these causes. The causes could not have caused any other event.
Analogy to the individuation of objects and human beings by their causal origins.
LewisVsInwagen:
1. This would ruin my analysis of analyzing causation in concepts of contrafactual dependency.
(s) Any deviation would be a different event, not comparable and it would not be applicable to contrafactual conditionals).
>Causation/Lewis.
2. It is prima facie implausible: I can legitimately make alternative hypotheses about how an event (or an object or a human being) has been caused.
But by that, I am assuming that it was the same event! Or that one and the same event might have had different effects. (Even Inwagen himself assumes that.)
Plan/LewisVsInwagen: a plan implies even more impossible: either my whole plans or hypotheses are hidden impossibilities, or they are not at all about a particular event.
Redundant causation/Lewis: important argument: if these are two "different deaths", then there is no redundancy!
>Effect, >Plan.

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