Sentence examples for backward causation from inspiring English sources

The philosophical debate about backward causation is relatively new.

(ii) Does backward causation mean that a future cause is changing something in the past?

The difference, however, is that time travel involves a causal loop whereas backward causation does not.

If backward causation is possible we cannot have a free will.

Hence it is not an argument only against backward causation but against eternalism as well.

This assumption may hold for time travel but not for backward causation.

But Eberhard and Roos' theorem does not rule out all forms of backward causation.

See the entries for Causation: Backward; Determinism: Causal; Hume, David; Kant and Hume on Causality; and Scientific Explanation (for discussion of the problem of irrelevance).

The second possible explanation is to postulate causation from the measurement events backward to the source at the emission time.

More particularly, he argues that a plausible reading of Cramer's (1980 , 1986 transactional interpretation, and any other theory that similarly attempts to account for the EPR/B correlations by postulating causation from the measurement events backward to the source, will be inconsistent.

Because it includes one strange feature: The responses of prospective absorbers, which correspond to the negotiation stage in a real-estate transaction, seem to go backward in time (technically known as reverse causation).