law of causation
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Another weighty objection against the Lutheran theory of justification is that it disregards the law of causation.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
To suppose otherwise is to deny the primordial law of causation.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
The basis of such a system is wanting; there is no general axiom standing in the same relation to the uniformities of co-existence as the law of causation does to those of succession.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by John Stuart Mill
Now this last-mentioned element in the resolution of a derivative law, the element which is not a law of causation, but a collocation of causes, cannot itself be reduced to any law.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
He can only appeal to the law of causation.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
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