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Causality   /kˌɔzˈɑlɪti/   Listen
Causality

noun
(pl. causalities)
1.
The relation between causes and effects.





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"Causality" Quotes from Famous Books



... only by choosing our unit from those which at all times have seemed to all men the most invariable, that we are able in our experiments to note that the same causes acting under identical conditions always produce the same effects. The idea of absolute length is derived from the principle of causality; and our choice is forced upon us by the necessity of obeying this principle, which we cannot reject without declaring by that very act all science ...
— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare
... will consists in the impossibility of knowing actions that still lie in the future. We could know them only if causality were an inner necessity like that of logical inference.—The connexion between knowledge and what is known is that of logical necessity. ('A knows that p is the case', has no sense if p is ...
— Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus • Ludwig Wittgenstein


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