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work_yhfrutxxrfejlhnjicl4kw4kxu	Julian Reiss	A Pragmatist Theory of Evidence	2015	23	.pdf	application/pdf	10588	853	60	be illustrated and supported by a case study on the smoking/lung cancer controversy in Alternatively, when we say that we have evidence e for a scientific hypothesis h, we may mean that we have 'proof' or 'warrant' that h or that e provides direct support for a causal hypothesis, a study that shows that no account for h's direct support is true or (b) an alternative hypothesis able to the causal hypothesis "I causes D" were true, the standard theories of causation provide the following answers:4 I will focus my remarks mainly on a single case study, the controversy surrounding the hypothesis that smoking causes lung cancer in the 1950s. In general, an empirical reason is required for taking an alternative account of the direct support (or prior indirect support) to be relevant. the causal hypothesis in the smoking/lung cancer case), the standards for	./cache/work_yhfrutxxrfejlhnjicl4kw4kxu.pdf	./txt/work_yhfrutxxrfejlhnjicl4kw4kxu.txt