Or, for that matter, from mathematical to mathematical facts.
I continue to be confused about whether/when you're allowed to draw causal arrows from mathematical to physical facts.
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If that's something you're allowed to do, it seems like a natural place for formal and final causes to live.
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@themattsimpson So there's no standard answer within Pearl's framework? It seems as though it would be "yes" insofar as the conditional
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@themattsimpson probability structure can be the same for mathematical as physical facts.
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@MemberOfSpecies I would have thought you can’t ever take a mathematical thing to be a cause… what would be an example? -
@Meaningness "The fact that 5*5=25 and the fact that the room is 5x5 meters, together, cause the room to be 25 square meters." - 4 more replies
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@MemberOfSpecies You can draw them any way you like, as long as it is a DAG.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@themattsimpson hand-waving version at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possible_world_semantics … ; more technically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kripke_semantics …
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