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Full Idea
Lacks and absences could perhaps by thought of as effects, but we ought to be deeply reluctant to think of them as causes.
Gist of Idea
Absences might be effects, but surely not causes?
Source
David M. Armstrong (What is a Law of Nature? [1983], 10.4)
Book Ref
Armstrong,D.M.: 'What is a Law of Nature?' [CUP 1985], p.147
A Reaction
Odd. So we allow that they exist (as effects), but then deny that they have any causal powers?