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Full Idea
The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator. If p-and-q is a fact, then this necessitates that p, but the fact that p need not be a result or consequence of the fact that p-and-q.
Gist of Idea
The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator
Source
Ernest Sosa (Varieties of Causation [1980], p.242)
Book Ref
'Causation', ed/tr. Sosa,E. /Tooley,M. [OUP 1993], p.242
A Reaction
This is obviously correct, and needs to be borne in mind when considering necessary causation. It is not enough to produce a piece of logic; something in the link from cause to effect must be demonstrated to be necessary.
| 8442 | What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence? [Sosa] |
| 8443 | Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa] |
| 8444 | Where is the necessary causation in the three people being tall making everybody tall? [Sosa] |
| 8445 | The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator [Sosa] |