Sentence examples for mechanical causation of from inspiring English sources

The causation is like that of chemistry, where, for example, water is the product of the fusion of oxygen and hydrogen, and unlike the mechanical causation of mechanics, where (as Mill saw it not quite correctly [see Section 10, below] the product of several causes is merely the additive sum of the effects of those causes taken separately.

That is why his theoretical philosophy licenses us only in attributing mechanical causation to nature itself.

Perhaps though, the need for a remedy arises from the mechanical causation governing the physiology of the passions: it makes the passions simply too coarse to steer us as precisely as they could with further correction of their "excesses".

There have been occasional attempts by some modern panpsychists, starting with Whitehead, to see this indeterminacy as an expression not of blind chance but spontaneous freedom in response to a kind of informational inclination rather than mechanical causation.

In this way, he links a lack of full accessibility to consciousness with mechanical causation in an associationist psychology.

Thus, bodily-based perceptions are explained functionally: they are justified by way of their purposes, but how they serve those ends requires resort to strictly mechanical causation.

Malebranche takes such association to operate as does the mechanical causation found in bodily events, especially where there are "secret alliances with the present disposition of our body" (ST V.12, 407).

But Kant also understood linear-mechanical causation as a category by which the mind frames experiences of the world.

Mechanical and non-mechanical factors contribute to causation of ventilator-associated lung injury.

That does not prove causation, of course.

Causation, of course, is more difficult to interpret then correlation.