Sentence examples for under causation from inspiring English sources

They may be interactionists, holding that the actual world is not physically closed under causation, and that nonphysical properties have physical effects.

One may hold that zombies are possible while denying that the actual world is physically closed under causation: one might be an interactionist.

What Stout describes here and finds prima facie incredible is a zombie world: an entire world whose physical processes are closed under causation (as the epiphenomenalists he was attacking held) and exactly duplicate those in the actual world, but where there are no conscious experiences.

In the ensuing discussion he unearths a picture of causation that under-girds the very idea of a scientific explanation of aesthetic judgment or preference.

So far we have considered how the counterfactual theory of causation works under the assumption of determinism.

This principle appears frequently in the mental causation literature under a number of labels: most common are variations of Completeness of the Physical (Crane 1995, 2001; Papineau 1993, 2000; O'Connor and Churchill 2010) or Physical Closure (Crane 1992; Baker 1993; Melnyk 2003; Kim 2005).

As Hartshorne notes, Whitehead's concept of prehension brings efficient causation and perception under a single category (Hartshorne 1984b, chapter 9).

I listed several principles of causation that follow under origin-fixation conditions, and stated that these principles will not be found in any textbook (which is perhaps my article's only "precise falsifiable statement", albeit a meta-scientific one).

Nonetheless, Whitworth et al. (2012), under the assumption of reverse causation suggested by Olsen et al. (2009) (i.e. parous women with longer time-to-pregnancy have higher PFCs levels because they have long interpregnancy intervals allowing re-accumulation of PFCs), found no association among nulliparous women after stratification by parity.

If all causal relations are subsumed under strict laws, and if there are no strict psychophysical laws, then any instance of mind body causation is subsumed only under physical laws.

The themes and subthemes from all systems were then grouped under the headings in the accident causation model.