Sentence examples for causation debate from inspiring English sources

Hume's method dictates his strategy in the causation debate.

The medieval synthesis Thomas Aquinas (1224 74) forged between Christian theology and Aristotle's science and metaphysics set the terms for the early modern causation debate.

The early modern causation debate revolved around a family of "nearly synonymous" key ideas, the most prominent of which were the ideas of power and necessary connection.

In doing so, he completely changes the course of the causation debate, reversing what everyone else thought about the idea of necessary connection.

As he did in the causation debate, Hume steps into an ongoing debate about ethics, often called the British Moralists debate, which began in the mid-seventeenth century and continued until the end of the eighteenth.

It is said that postulating systematic overdetermination in this context is "absurd" (Kim 1993a, p. 281), one of the "nonstarters" in the mental causation debate (Kim 1998, p. 65).

Downward causation argument.

In the classical period of Arabic and Islamic thought (9th 12th centuries), original and influential accounts of causation emerged from debate within two intellectual traditions: speculative theology (kalām) and Greek philosophy (falsafah).

And at any rate the key debate, over causation, is mostly unresolved.

"It's amazing how they are left out of the debate about causation, but also about solutions," Allen Frances, the Duke psychiatrist, said of the Sacklers.

For example, many participants in the debate over causation are not particularly worried about whether causes and effects exist.