Eckhart, however, breaks through that metaphysics of being with its analogical base by thinking through the relation of causality informing absolute being.
Although our results are in line with the described published studies, there are two fundamental weaknesses: the first is the adoption of a transversal design that does not allow a relation of causality be established between social engagement and dependence for ADLs, and the second is that this work was only made with socially-active older people.
Surveillance results on the point prevalence of nosocomial infections and their relation of causality with the use of antibiotics in European hospitals, in studies conducted by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control showed that 5.4% healthcare-associated infections with documented bacterial aetiology were determined by Clostridium difficile (CD) [ 1].
But while nomological relations between events (relations involving laws) depend on the descriptions under which the events are given, relations of causality and identity obtain irrespective of descriptions — if the icing-up of the road did indeed cause the skid, then it did so no matter how the events at issue are described.
In particular, his account of universals is in danger of collapsing into nominalism on the question of whether the directly perceived relation (say, of causality) is on separate occasions one and the same (for Mounce, anything less than complete identity would be a retreat to nominalism – Mounce 1989).
As mentioned above, there is an asymmetry between the relation of efficient causality and the relation of formal dependence that conjoin creatures and Creator: while the former is in time, the latter is eternal.
One item in this chain of argument has some textual support in Ockham: he did not believe that the relation of efficient causality was a thing distinct from its relata (Ockham, Quodlibet VI, qu. 12: Opera Theologica IX, pp. 629ff).
Finally, there was the limitation in relation to causality.
ADRs were classified in relation to causality and severity.
Indeed, these presuppositions have been confirmed by the general theory: They are spatiality and temporality as "unintuitive schema of order" in general (as distinct from any particular chronometrical relations), the law of causality and presupposition of continuity, the principle of sufficient reason, and the conservation laws.
He substantiates this claim by examining a range of central concepts from metaphysics and epistemology, among them the concepts of primary and secondary qualities, of substance and attribute, of quality and relation, space and time, of causality as well as the concept of a thing and that of the self.
