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Causation and Causality
by Ken Sewell   
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Category:  Philosophy
Publisher: Empiricus

ISBN-10:  1902835123

Pages: 122

Copyright: 
Jan 1 2003

SK Leung ridicules Spinoza's idea of causation in teh form of 'Given a cause, its effect will follow as of necessity'. The question whether there is a causal necessity or whether causation is merely a constant conjunction, is transformed into questions of understanding events and its preconditions.

Author introduces the notion of 'epistemological priority' and 'temporal continuum' to explain the ordinary conception of causation in connection with space and time. The author separates the understanding of causality from that of causation in a way that allows the conception of causation not to end up as circular arguments, like that of Spinoza's and others, so that there is no need for 'causation' to be a 'Category' of a priori principles that governs man's perceptual reality. The origin of 'causality', to the author, lies squarely in an existential question

 


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