Reichenbachian common cause systems revisited

DOI10.1007/S10701-011-9622-8MaRDI QIDQ424166zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Claudio Mazzola

Publication date 31 May 2012

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:330355/UQ330355_OA.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

conjunctive forkspositive correlationsReichenbachian common cause systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

Review text

Finding previous notions of a Reichenbachian common cause system to be unsatisfactory, Mazzola presents an alternative version that overcomes earlier inadequacies. A generalization of Reichenbach's conjunctive forks is given that satisfies certain requirements regarded as basic, and it is shown that ``systems of any finite number of common causes, so reshaped, are proved to exist for any positively correlated pair in a suitable extension of the given classical probability space (p.\ 513).

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