 In  §4  we saw two examples of the kinds of case that have motivated some authors to endorse contextualism. The examples exhibit different features. In the case of the theft of the coconut cake, the idea is that in different contexts of utterance, the very same causal claim – “Suzy’s theft of the coconut cake from the shop caused her subsequent illness” – can vary in truth value, depending on whether the context determines that what is at issue is Suzy’s criminality (theft rather than purchase) or, instead, which item she stole (coconut cake rather than Bath bun). The case of the gardener and the Queen, by contrast, is a case where the (alleged) cause (the gardener’s omission) and non-cause (the Queen’s) stand in the same counterfactual relationship to the effect, and yet judgements differ with respect to their causal status.