I don't see how this would really help unless I am trying to do original research.
What are you trying to do?
There are a lot of gotchas w/ causality. Lots of wikipedia info is wrong, etc.
If your thought process is "I want to learn about causes of things, but this seems like an awful lot of math..." consider that you may need to internalize some (not all!) of this math before you can talk about causes properly at all. It's like physics. Physics is handy, but there's some math. It's probably a good idea to learn a bit of physics if you are interested in the physical world, even if you aren't interested in doing original physics research.
I can generally point you in the right direction, but this will take some work from you, also.
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