Unreasonable Effectiveness of Compositional Thinking → just start writing → it’s not obvious that processes must be made up of composable steps →
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why is causality a chain? why is logic made up of steps?

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causality as a chain

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hume questioned the necessity of causal connection, saw it as a habit of mind

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david lewis causal connectivity as counterfactual dependence

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x causes y if, had x not happened, y wouldn’t have happened

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rooted in possible worlds logic

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judea pearl uses directed acyclic graphs explicitly

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logic made up of steps

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frege / bertrand russell / Whitehead, formal logic as stepwise derivation

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ludwig wittgenstein logical form as mirrored in the structure of reality, atomic facts compose into more complex facts

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brouwer in intuitionism, logic is a constructive mental activity, the steps come from the “mind’s unfolding”

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