Sentence examples for causal views from inspiring English sources

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).

Sehon develops a detailed and original argument against the main assumptions of the causal view and outlines his own 'teleological realist' alternative.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Compatibilist accounts of free action are typically event-causal views, invoking event-causal accounts of action.

On what are called agent-causal views, causation by an agent is held not to consist in causation by events (such as the agent's recognizing certain reasons).

Even some proponents of agent-causal views (e.g., Taylor 1992: 53) seem doubtful about this, declaring agent causation to be strange or even mysterious.