Sentence examples for a causal theory from inspiring English sources

As a causal theory natural selection locates the causally relevant differences that lead to differential reproduction.

But this latter consequence implies a causal theory of perception which is fundamentally antithetical to Kant's understanding of causality.

Martin and Deutscher (1966), developing a causal theory of memory, argued that the past experience itself must have been causally operative in producing (intervening) states which are in turn causally operative in producing the present recollective experience.

Suppose that a causal theory is false.

According to a causal theory of reference, "water" necessarily designates H2O.

Moreover, it does not establish that an evidential theory of rational desire agrees with a causal theory of rational desire.

This resulted in a minimum set of feedback loops that represent a collective causal theory to explain trends over time for commuting in Auckland, including a causal loop diagram specific to commuter bicycling.

Plainly, the representational state of an organism is not, as a simple causal theory suggests, about all of its causes: magnetosomes do not represent adjacent structures within the marine bacteria, even though causally affected by them.

For similar reasons, it is incumbent upon a pure causal theory of representation to specify a relevant mode of causation.

A simple causal theory of perceptual knowledge says that a subject's perceptual knowledge that P can be analyzed in terms of P's bearing the right kind of causal relation to the subject's belief that P. To test this claim, we need not await proposals as to what the kind of causal relation in question is.

According to an amended causal theory, for instance, a representation is about its cause only if conditions are normal: R in O represents C if and only if R is caused by C in normal conditions.