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Reichenbachian Common Cause Systems of Arbitrary Finite Size Exist
Authors:Gábor Hofer-Szabó  Miklós Rédei
Institution:1. Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Budapest University of Technology Economics, Budapest, Hungary
2. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, E?tv?s University, Budapest, Hungary
Abstract:A partition $$\{C_i\}_{i\in I}$$ of a Boolean algebra Ω in a probability measure space (Ω, p) is called a Reichenbachian common cause system for the correlation between a pair A,B of events in Ω if any two elements in the partition behave like a Reichenbachian common cause and its complement; the cardinality of the index set I is called the size of the common cause system. It is shown that given any non-strict correlation in (Ω, p), and given any finite natural number n > 2, the probability space (Ω,p) can be embedded into a larger probability space in such a manner that the larger space contains a Reichenbachian common cause system of size n for the correlation.
Keywords:probability measure space  correlation  Reichenbachian common cause
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