law of causation
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Moreover every science, except the purely mathematical sciences, assumes the truth of the law of causation.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)
For it contradicts the very law of causation itself, which demands that every event shall be in orderly sequence with some preceding event.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
The first of these laws that we know is the law of causation.
From The Book of Life by Sinclair, Upton
The author takes obvious pains to make things come out wrong; as in melodramas and childish romances, the law of causation is suspended in the interest of the hero's welfare.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
Now, the most extensive in its subject-matter of all generalizations which experience warrants, respecting the sequences and coexistences of phenomena, is the law of causation.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart
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