Timeline for What elements of a causal chain act as explanations for an effect?
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| 9 hours ago | comment | added | tkruse | As a reference request, "which philosophers wrote something about causation?" Seems ridiculous. All if them did. | |
| 16 hours ago | history | edited | Syed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| yesterday | comment | added | Double Knot | Indeed if you always look up to the blue Platonic-like formal realm above your physical head, you cannot know the causal history or those particularly sought-after causal event of any of your interest in the same horizontal world as yours on earth even in the local past. Causality aka Dharma is extremely mystical as hinted and passionately sought after by Democritus and Plato's single realm is insufficient to cause the issue resolved. If you only dwell in Western philosophy, then perhaps a better question is which western philosopher(s) truly grounded cause in the modern non-mystic sense?... | |
| yesterday | answer | added | Philomath | timeline score: 2 | |
| yesterday | answer | added | Jo Wehler | timeline score: 1 | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Syed | @NotThatGuy true! | |
| yesterday | comment | added | NotThatGuy | "this is partially or fully a matter of semantics" - pretty much. Reality doesn't fit neatly into the little boxes made up by one species on some tiny planet in the middle of nowhere in particular. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Kaia | Yeah, my inclination is that this is a matter of semantics, but certainly there's writing about it. SEP might have some good references. A potentially salient example is the merlin/morgana one (a relevant as a counterexample to the counterfactual definition) | |
| yesterday | answer | added | Lowri | timeline score: 5 | |
| yesterday | history | asked | Syed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |