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This is more in the domain of philosophy than statistics.

I wrote something in response, but then saw that the Wiki article on causality was far better than what I wrote, so have a look at that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_and_sufficiency




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