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causal Philosophy (of a theory) explaining a phenomenon or analysing a concept in terms of some causal relation How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be. It is possible to understand that Napoleon had power and so events occurred; with some effort one may even conceive that Napoleon together with other influences was the cause of an event; but how a book, Le Contrat social, had the effect of making Frenchmen begin to drown one another cannot be understood without an explanation of the causal nexus of this new force with the event. There are, it seems to me, prima facie different kinds of causal laws, one belonging to physics and the other to psychology. |
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