A conversational model of causal explanation is outlined which emphasizes the role of counterfactual reasoning, contrast cases and conversational constraints in causal explanation. It is used to organize existing models of causal attribution, to integrate attribution research with other models of causal reasoning, and to study explanations in ordinary language.
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