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C.11:4.3.2 - Causal repair

Switch on one InterventionModel when taking one option changes the world through intervention rather than merely signaling which outcome was already likely.

What changes here is not the prestige label of the theory line, but the comparative question itself: the working question is no longer only what this option indicates about the outcome, but what this option causes in the outcome structure.

Typical practical cash-outs are:

  • choose now because, under the declared intervention structure, one option now causally dominates or remains the survivor and no remaining feasible probe can reverse that causal ranking;
  • probe again because one intervention-relevant uncertainty still blocks a lawful causal comparison and one named next probe could still change which option causally survives;
  • reroute because the intervention-use question has already moved from local choice into enactment planning, protocol design, or one neighboring question.

The causal repair is incomplete if the comparison still treats options only as evidence after invoking causal language, or if an InterventionModel is named without stating what defect of the lighter evidential comparison it repairs.