Sentence examples for more general causal from inspiring English sources

Such a proposal would find a home in the more general "causal theory of properties" defended by Shoemaker (1980 , 1998 and others.

Moreover, by finding a cause shared by phenomena in different sub-kinds, we are able to colligate all the facts about these kinds into a more general causal law.

At the same time, it should be recognized that showing that indeterminacy is a real feature of the world at the quantum level would have significant negative implications for the more general Causal Principle that underlies the deductive cosmological argument.

A more general causal network model can be constructed from a set of HYPs that are themselves causally connected by literature-derived edges (see Methods).

Actual causal claims also play a role in science, especially in the interpretation of empirical findings to support more general causal theories.

If aberrant miRNAs have a more general causal role in these tumours, it is possible that the tumours without DICER1 mutations have alterations in other factors in the miRNA processing pathway.

A better solution replaces memory with the more general notion of causal dependence (Shoemaker 1984, 89ff).

In order to accommodate chancy causation, Lewis (1986c) defines a more general notion of causal dependence in terms of chancy counterfactuals.

A deeper explanation one unavailable to Aristotle but illustrating his view nicely is more general, and also more causal in character: trees shed their leaves because diminished sunlight in the autumn inhibits the production of chlorophyll, which is required for photosynthesis, and without photosynthesis trees go dormant.

We will later discuss how to approach the more general problem when multiple causal diagrams are possible.

(In Lewis 1966, the second premise is more general: the occupant of the causal role is identified with a physical state. Lewis then defends the second premise by endorsing the explanatory adequacy of physics).