Sentence examples for causal condition from inspiring English sources

We might think that when we say that someone could have gone to Boston instead of staying in Providence, what we mean is merely that at some earlier time this morning, his trip to Boston was causally indeterminate — there was no sufficient causal condition either for his going to Boston or for his not going to Boston.

The motivation for the causal condition often comes from an examination of cases of perception.

The relevant sufficient causal condition would not have arisen until the person lying in wait in Chelmsford had freely interfered.

The causal condition rules out analogical arguments where there is no causal knowledge of the source domain.

Another account of 'could have done otherwise' makes use of the concept of sufficient antecedent causal condition.

(There is also no event or state that is a sufficient causal condition for his failing to do it, obviously).

Bhaskara, in his theory of knowledge, distinguished between self-consciousness that is ever-present and objective knowledge that passively arises out of appropriate causal conditions but is not an activity.

Either all causal conditions are such that the sea battle will occur, or no causal conditions are such that it will occur, or it is permitted by some but not all causal conditions (cf. Hartshorne 1970, 145).

The former makes sense for Gelug because the appearance arises from causal conditions, and whatever arises from the causal conditions is a non-eternal or non-permanent.

When the causal conditions changes any thing that dependently arises from them also changes.

For one thing, quantum events are not completely devoid of causal conditions.