Practice question · True or false
Under the theory of the equivalence of conditions, only a condition that generally tends to produce results of that kind counts as a cause.
Hints
- That description belongs to a rival theory.
- Equivalence counts every condition without which the result would not have occurred.
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False
Why
False: that is the theory of adequate causation, which was proposed precisely because equivalence counts too much. On the equivalence test every condition without which the result would not have occurred is a cause, and all are equally causes, which is why the knife seller comes out as a cause of the killing.
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