Physical and Metaphysical Counterfactuals: Evaluating Disjunctive Actions
The structural interpretation of counterfactuals as formulated in Balke and Pearl (1994a,b) [1, 2] excludes disjunctive conditionals, such as “had X$X$ been x1 or x2$x_1~\mbox{or}~x_2$,” as well as disjunctive actions such as do(X=x1 or X=x2)$do(X=x_1~\mbox{or}~X=x_2)$. In contrast, the closest-worl...
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De Gruyter
2017-08-01
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| Series: | Journal of Causal Inference |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2017-0018 |