Sentence examples for causal view from inspiring English sources

The causal view as an instance of (2), though, seems to have even less in the way of argumentative support.

The causal view that is a version of (2) (that is, that its being obligatory for A to φ depends causally on God's willing that A φ) should be distinguished carefully from the causal view that is a version of (3) (that is, that its being obligatory for A to φ depends causally on God's willing that it be obligatory for A to φ).

Clearly, getting the appropriate account of causation – if we accept the causal view – and of voluntary assumption – if we accept the voluntarist view – is important if we are to apply these views to issues such as abortion, child support, surrogate motherhood, and new reproductive technologies.

The causal view is defended by Quinn (1979, 1990, 1999), and in a particularly strong form: on Quinn's view, the causal connection between God's antecedently intending that A φ and its being obligatory for A to φ exhibits totality, exclusivity, activity, immediacy, and necessity.

This causal view of latent traits is consistent with the aim of GWAS to detect genetic variants that cause individual differences in operationalizations such as sum-scores.

The other pointedly describes what's led someone to feel overwhelmed and disappointed, making vivid the deep causal views of the writer.

On some agent causal views, only the agent, as opposed to events caused by other events is the cause of the intention (e.g., O'Connor), while on another view, the agent acts in tandem with events that probabilistically cause the action (Clarke 1993).

(Unlike what we have with any event-causal view, with an agent-causal account, the agent is quite literally an ultimate source or origin of her action).

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.

As with event-causal views, there are versions of the agent-causal view according to which the action is the relevant causal process, rather than the causal effect or outcome of that process.

And if an event-causal view is on the right track, the agent's control over the making of the choice is a matter of the production of the choice, not of what the choice produces).