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There is no doubt that effects need probabilities. Deterministic causes — sufficient and/or necessary conditions — give effects probability 1 with their causes and/or probability 0 without them. And the indeterministic causation of Salmon (1984) and others has probabilities of effects built into its very foundations.
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Mellor, D.H. (1988). On Raising the Chances of Effects. In: Fetzer, J.H. (eds) Probability and Causality. Synthese Library, vol 192. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3997-4_11
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