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[from 'The Mind in Nature' by C.B. Martin, in 26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata ]

Full Idea

The two-event cause-and-effect view is easily avoided and replaced by the view of mutual manifestations of reciprocal disposition partners, suggesting a natural contemporaneity.

Gist of Idea

Instead of a cause followed by an effect, we have dispositions in reciprocal manifestation

Source

C.B. Martin (The Mind in Nature [2008], 05.1)

Book Reference

Martin,C.B.: 'The Mind in Nature' [OUP 2008], p.46


A Reaction

This view, which I find much more congenial than the traditional one, is explored in the ideas of Mumford and Anjum.