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In this paper, I will recommend one particular concept of causal explanation, the concept of aleatoric explanation of Humphreys (1989), and discuss this concept in detail in the context of one particular theory of social interaction, the theory of behavior interaction in small groups [Westmeyer, 1989], which is an element of a particular class of social interaction theories the basic element of which is formulated by David Magnusson (1980) in his general interactionistic behavior concept
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Westmeyer, H. (1996). A Concept of Explanation for Social Interaction Models. In: Hegselmann, R., Mueller, U., Troitzsch, K.G. (eds) Modelling and Simulation in the Social Sciences from the Philosophy of Science Point of View. Theory and Decision Library, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8686-3_10
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