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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 
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