from Part 2 - What’s Warrant for Singular Causal Processes and Why
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 April 2026
Warrant for singular causal claims can be ‘local’, comprising claims about features and happenings in the setting the claim concerns, or ‘from afar’, comprising claims about other settings. It may also be ‘direct’, concerning whether the claim itself is true, or indirect concerning facts that bear upon whether the claim is true. Evidence claims warranting claims of all these sorts should be understood as composed of conjunctions of factual claims and relevance claims. Such claims may be compiled into ‘evidence trees’ in which each claim is warranted (as practical and required) with further conjunctions of claims at higher ‘levels’ of evidence. This may be represented diagrammatically and serves to structure the evidence to show the roles which each piece of evidence plays, and the relation between these roles. Our primary focus is on indirect local warrant.
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