If there is no SCCs [sufficient condition causes] in the subject matter domain of scientific human psychology, then there is no explanatory science of human psychology, because then there cannot properly be said to be any definable psychological causes of human psychological phenomena but, perhaps, only probabilistic psychological predictors of such phenomena (p. 59).
Krause, M. S. (2010). Trying to discover sufficient condition causes. Methodology, 6, 59-70.
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