Anusha Vemuri

In Root cause analysis if we take Necessary condition as A and sufficient condition as B A is a necessary condition of B if B could not be the case without A being the case. A is a sufficient condition of B if A could not be the case without B's being the case. However there are weaker and stronger ways of thinking of necessary and sufficient conditions. On the weakest conceivable reading, A's being a necessary condition of B simply asserts the contingent truth of the material conditional "If B then A", and A's being a sufficient condition of B the contingent truth of the material conditional "If A then B". The stronger readings imply that the conditionals be necessarily true in some sense. If A is a necessary and sufficient condition of B in this stronger sense, then A can be said to give the essence of B. Hope this clears the approach to root cause.

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