arXiv Machine Learning By Vyacheslav Kungurtsev, Leonardo Christov Moore, Gustav Sir, Martin Krutsky

"Cause" is Mechanistic Narrative within Scientific Domains: An Ordinary Language Philosophical Critique of "Causal Machine Learning"

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arXiv:2501. 05844v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Causal Learning has emerged as a major theme of research in statistics and machine learning in recent years, promising computational techniques to reveal ``true'' causality.

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