id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_2don3o3plvdkpntjuzaebvikf4 Michael Baumgartner An Abductive Theory of Constitution 2017 18 .pdf application/pdf 9381 542 52 constitution (NDC), which exploits the fact that phenomena and their constituents are unbreakably coupled via common causes. data that conclusively establish the existence of causal relations, no such experimental designs exist for the inference to constitution. Due to the non-causal nature of the relationship between phenomena and their parts, every cause of a mechanism's upper or lower level that is associated with a change on the other level is a common ties the notion of constitution to the possibility of surgical top-down and bottomup interventions that target one level of a mechanism and thereby change the other featuring constitution there exists a pure common-cause model that entails the very and micro levels, which stems from the fact that a phenomenon Ψ of a given mechanism supervenes on its constituents in a constituting set Φ = {Φ1, . broken whereas constitutional common-cause couplings will persist across all variable set expansions. ./cache/work_2don3o3plvdkpntjuzaebvikf4.pdf ./txt/work_2don3o3plvdkpntjuzaebvikf4.txt