Sentence examples for natural causality from inspiring English sources

Connected with the questions just discussed are problems about the organizing principles of nature; i.e., about natural causality.

It is from this context, in which questions about the nature of causation intermixed with questions about the relation between divine and natural causality, that occasionalism emerged.

For instance, philosophers came to question how divine causal activity is to be understood, particularly, in relation to the natural causality of creatures.

The ideas of evolution and of natural causality associated with the science of the 19th century also played a part through the naturalistic explanations of the biblical miracles.

Bergson thinks that Kant has confused space and time in a mixture, with the result that we must conceive human action as determined by natural causality.

A prophet's knowledge of the future is based on deductive inference, since he or she is well acquainted with the world and with all details of natural causality.

His investigations into semantics and epistemology, ontology and causality, natural kinds, time, space, and individuation transformed the philosophical landscape for generations to come.

The son ends up in this purgatorial ledge on the way to redemption, so there is no chain of natural necessity and causality between the past and the present and the future.

Implicit in this argument is a distinction between natural and artificial causality: written words can clearly have effects on rational agents which do not depend solely on the natural properties of paper and ink, but they do so because of convention.

It demands that the causality of natural bodies is rooted in and explained by their natures.

But a backdrop of national debate about the future of the natural world and human causality for climate change render it a more provocative exhibition than we might have imagined.