I agree that you don’t need a mechanism, and I agree that if there is nothing else that could have caused it, then that permits you to infer causation. More specifically, I think it’s the determinism here that allows you to infer it. (Which you also say in the post.)
I agree that you don’t need a mechanism, and I agree that if there is nothing else that could have caused it, then that permits you to infer causation. More specifically, I think it’s the determinism here that allows you to infer it. (Which you also say in the post.)