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The economics of paradox: a response to armour-garb
Authors:John Woods
Affiliation:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract:‘Those ice cubes melted because by melting total entropy increased and entropy increase has a very high objective chance.’ What role does the chance in this explanation play? I argue that it contributes to the explanation by entailing that the melting was almost necessary, and defend the claim that the fact that some event was almost necessary can, in the right circumstances, constitute a causal explanation of that event.
Keywords:explanation  causation  chance.
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