law of causation
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What is needed, therefore, is to establish the conception that external acts are NOT the only causative power, but that there is another law of causation, namely, that of pure Thought.
From The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science by Troward, T. (Thomas)
Therefore transcendental freedom is a violation of the law of causation, and is in conflict with all experience.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
Again, his statement of the law of causation is inadequate.
From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand
An intelligence sufficiently wide and penetrating would, following the strict law of causation, be able to produce all lines of the present with absolute certainty immeasurably far into the future.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Nordau, Max Simon
According to Mill, the law of causation is proved by an admittedly fallible process called “induction by simple enumeration.”
From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand
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