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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / c. Agent causation

20051	Reid said that agent causation is a unique type of causation [Reid, by Stout,R]
	Full Idea: Thomas Reid said that an agent's causing something involves a fundamentally different kind of causation from inanimate causing.
	From: report of Thomas Reid (Essays on Active Powers 1: Active power [1788]) by Rowland Stout - Action 4 'Agent'
	A reaction: I'm afraid the great philosopher of common sense got it wrong on this one. Introducing a new type of causation into our account of nature is crazy.