Sentence examples for causal force from inspiring English sources

Thus, the Buddhist appears to reject both top-down (viz., cognitivist) and bottom-up (viz., strongly determinist) approaches to cognition: thoughts are neither prior to actions, and thus causally determine them, nor do they lack causal force, and are thus epiphenomenal.

Those claims do not necessarily have causal force.

Theories of international systems have sought to answer two related questions: Why do states create international institutions and, once created, do international institutions behave autonomously and hence act as an independent causal force in international politics?

A current project on "self-signaling" tries to understand the strange power of non-causal motivation when individuals favor actions that are diagnostic of good outcomes, even though these actions have little or no causal force.

For Olivi, every natural physical agent has a virtual attention of this sort that extends as far as its causal force does (Q23, pp. 424 25).

In so far as proponents of the 'non-causal' view are motivated by the oddity of regarding drift, or chance, as a causal force, they have a point.

A fundamental assumption of structural equation models is that the sampled cases are causally homogeneous and responsive to the same causal forces.

The novel slows somewhat as McGrath tries to bring the shattering causal forces together into a dramatic scene of emblematic revelation.

Is there a philosophically defensible contrast between being an agent and being a locus of causal forces to which one is subject?

But scientists want to identify the causal forces that interact to make individual lives, and that means abstracting away from those lives themselves.

He was also already attracted by the metaphysical ideas of Hegel and Spinoza, which inspired in him a desire to find a total explanation of the causal forces of life and the universe.