Concept
Causation (law)
Overview
the causal relationship between conduct and result
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And this implies the trait to which I am drawing attention. The conception of natural causation is so imperfectly developed that there is only an indistinct consciousness that throughout the whole of human conduct necessary relations of causes and effects prevail, and that from them are ultimately derived all moral rules, however much these may be proximately derived from moral intuitions. § 21. Strange to say, even…
Herbert Spencer, The Data of Ethics
States what Causation is; names Causation several times.
The relation of the Conservation theory to the principle of Causation is discussed in much detail, and very instructively, by Professor Bain, in the second volume of his Logic. The chief practical conclusion drawn by him, bearing on Causation, is, that we must distinguish in the assemblage of conditions which constitutes the Cause of a phenomenon, two elements: one, the presence of a force; the other, the…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
States what Causation is; names Causation several times.
The foreknowledge of these particular events is called Genethlialogy, or the science of Nativities. It must be remembered that the causation, by which all effects, whether general or particular, are produced and foreknown, is essentially one and the same; for the motions of the planets, and of the Sun and Moon, present the operative causation of events which happen to any individual, as well as of those which happen…
Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos
Names Causation several times; states what Causation is.
Philosophers who discussed Causation (law)
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Place in the tradition
Part of Buddhist philosophy.