Causality, Causal Inference, Philosophy Of Science, Ethical Ai, Mediation Analysis.
if we take “meaning” in the sense that Douglas Hofstadter ascribed to this word in Gödel, Echer, Bach, that is, something that is implied by an isomorphism between symbols: in our case, terms “direct effect” and “indirect effect”, and some objects in another system: in our case, quantities in the