 Within Pearl’s framework and using the notion of a setting intervention, it might be argued that there is no problem with capturing claims like (G), at least if we assume (as we did above) that the relevant setting operation is always “possible” or legitimate: we just imagine the gravitational attraction of the moon set to some different value via a setting intervention (we don’t need to specify how this comes about—whether the mass of the moon or its distance from the earth etc. is different) and then note (by applying Newtonian gravitational theory) that the motion of the tides would be  different.[4]