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Ideas of G.H. von Wright, by Text
[Finnish, 1916 - 2003, Born in Helsinki. Professor at Cambridge 1948-51. At Cornell University, and Helsinki. Friend of Wittgenstein. Died in Finland.]
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1973
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Logic and Epistemology of Causal Relations
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§10
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p.123
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The very notion of a cause depends on agency and action
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§2
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p.106
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8360
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We must further analyse conditions for causation, into quantifiers or modal concepts
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§5
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p.111
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8361
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What is true used to be possible, but it may no longer be so
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§7
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p.117
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8362
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We give regularities a causal character by subjecting them to experiment
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§8
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p.118
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8363
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p is a cause and q an effect (not vice versa) if manipulations of p change q
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§8
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p.119
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8364
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We can imagine controlling floods by controlling rain, but not vice versa
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§9
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p.121
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8365
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Some laws are causal (Ohm's Law), but others are conceptual principles (conservation of energy)
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