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I briefly describe a learning system which constructs causal models of simple physical systems such as cameras, sinks, and toasters. The learning system employs both inductive and deductive inference, making use of knowledge of the forms of causal relations, and of what kinds of causal mechanisms exist.
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Doyle, R.J. (1986). Learning Causal Relations. In: Machine Learning. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2279-5_13
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