What things exist? 2: Does the relation of causation exist?

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Find the token causation.
When Mary drank, it caused her to get drunk.
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Find the type causation.
Violence causes more violence.
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The traditional theory of token causation states:
Causes necessitate their effects
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The regularity theory of causation states:
If events of type E follow events of type C with sufficient regularity, c is a cause of e
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The counterfactual theory of causation states:
Event c is a cause of event e iff: if c had not occurred, e would not have occurred
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Lewis developed which theory?
The counterfactual theory of causation
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The common cause problem reveals which missing piece?
Dependence
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