ABSTRACT
A causal claim of the form A causes B is deterministic, only if, ceteris paribus, whenever A occurs, it is followed by B. Otherwise, the claim is indeterministic. There were at least two reasons for treating deterministic causality before indeterministic causality. First of all, deterministic causality was the notion of causality used by the pioneers of scientific medicine such as Robert Koch and Pasteur when they developed the germ theory of disease in the 19th century. Secondly, indeterministic causality is more complicated notion than deterministic causality, and raises quite a number of problems which are far from being completely resolved. Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women on a global scale. The first step consisted in epidemiological investigations of cervical cancer which took place in the late 1950s and early 1960s. I. J. Good suggests that causality can be defined in terms of probability, where probability is given the propensity interpretation which K. R. Popper had introduced.
