<ul><li>Not much has been written about the role of triggers in the literature on causal reasoning, causal modeling, or philosophy.</li><li>The paper focuses on describing triggers and causes in the metaphysical sense and differentiating them.</li><li>A mathematical model and the Cause-Trigger algorithm are proposed to determine whether a process is a cause or a trigger of an effect.</li><li>The algorithm is demonstrated on the climatological data of two recent cyclones, Freddy and Zazu, successfully detecting triggers for high wind speed.</li></ul>

Cause or Trigger? From Philosophy to Causal Modeling

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