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The literature on causation distinguishes between causal claims relating properties or types and causal claims relating individuals or tokens. Many authors maintain that corresponding to these two kinds of causal claims are two different kinds of causal relations. Whether to regard causal relations among variables as yet another variety of causation is also controversial. This essay maintains that causal relations obtain among tokens and that type causal claims are generalizations concerning causal relations among these tokens.
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Hausman, D.M. Causal Relata: Tokens, Types, or Variables?. Erkenntnis 63, 33–54 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-005-0562-6
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