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Contents

Phase One: Macroanalysis.

Chapter 1. The Paradigm of Causation ........................................................................... 11
1. Causation. ................................................................................................................ 11
2. The Paradigmic Determination. .............................................................................. 12
Chapter 2. The Generic Determinations ......................................................................... 16
1. Strong Determinations. ............................................................................................ 16
2. Parallelism of Strongs. ............................................................................................ 19
3. Weak Determinations. ............................................................................................. 21
4. Parallelism of Weaks. .............................................................................................. 28
5. The Four Genera of Causation. ............................................................................... 29
6. Negations of Causation. .......................................................................................... 31
Chapter 3. The Specific Determinations ......................................................................... 34
1. The Species of Causation. ....................................................................................... 34
2. The Joint Determinations. ....................................................................................... 36
3. The Significance of Certain Findings. ..................................................................... 43
Chapter 4. Immediate Inferences ..................................................................................... 46
1. Oppositions. ............................................................................................................. 46
2. Eductions. ................................................................................................................ 47
3. The Directions of Causation. ................................................................................... 55
Chapter 5. Causative Syllogism ....................................................................................... 58
1. Causal or Effectual Chains. ..................................................................................... 58
2. Some Instructive Examples. .................................................................................... 59
3. Figures and Moods. ................................................................................................. 62
Chapter 6. List of Positive Moods .................................................................................... 69
1. Valid and Invalid Moods. ........................................................................................ 69
2. Moods in Figure 1. .................................................................................................. 71
3. Moods in Figure 2. .................................................................................................. 75
4. Moods in Figure 3. .................................................................................................. 79
Chapter 7. Reduction of Positive Moods ......................................................................... 85
1. Reduction. ................................................................................................................ 85
2. Reductions in Figure 1. ........................................................................................... 90
3. Reductions in Figure 2. ........................................................................................... 96
4. Reductions in Figure 3. ......................................................................................... 102
Chapter 8. Matricial Analyses ........................................................................................ 109
1. Matricial Analysis. ................................................................................................ 109
2. Crucial Matricial Analyses in Figure 1. ................................................................ 112
3. Crucial Matricial Analyses in Figure 2. ................................................................ 127
4. Crucial Matricial Analyses in Figure 3. ................................................................ 133
Chapter 9. Squeezing Out More Information ............................................................... 141
1. The Interactions of Determinations. ...................................................................... 141
2. Negative Moods. ................................................................................................... 145
3. Negative Conclusions from Positive Moods. ........................................................ 148
4. Imperfect Moods. .................................................................................................. 152