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SERENE Method Manual
Version 1.0 (F) May 1999
event. The extent to which this can be done successfully depends on the degree of the
similarity between the events ;
2.
Causal reasoning is modelled by the process-product and measurement idioms. In the
process/product idiom our reasoning connects causes (processes) to consequences (the
product of those causes). The measurement idiom relies on the concomitant interaction of the
measurement instrument and the artefact under observation to produce an estimate (the
consequence);
3.
Deterministic reasoning is modelled by the synthesis/definitional idiom. Here definitions of
things are modelled by deterministic functions. Also different variables may be combined in
some way for practical purposes (synthesis), where the combination rule is completely
certain.
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