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Causal reasoning without mechanism

Unobservable mechanisms that tie causes to their effects generate observable events. How can one make inferences about hidden causal structures? This paper introduces the domain-matching heuristic to explain how humans perform causal reasoning when lacking mechanistic knowledge. We posit that people...

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Autores principales: Dündar-Coecke, Selma, Goldin, Gideon, Sloman, Steven A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9106179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35560140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268219