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Causality (physics)

Overview

conceptual link between natural phenomena that temporally follow one another because one is the cause of the other

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The proposition therefore—if all causality is possible only in accordance with the laws of nature—is, when stated in this unlimited and general manner, self-contradictory. It follows that this cannot be the only kind of causality.
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
Names Causality several times; states what Causality is.
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Therefore we recognise the essence of the will least readily, where causality is most intelligible; and, where the will is most unmistakably evident, causality becomes so obscured, that the vulgar mind could venture to deny its existence altogether.--Now, as Kant has taught us, causality is nothing but the form of the understanding itself, knowable _à priori_: that is, the essence of _representation_, as such, which…
Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature
Names Causality several times; states what Causality is.
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For the present, I am merely concerned to discover what the law of causality is supposed to be. I pass, therefore, to the other definitions quoted above. The second definition need not detain us long, for two reasons.
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
Names Causality several times; states what Causality is.
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