PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Military Intelligence, Materials Science, Y Chromosome
12 Jan 2016
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Your car doesn"t start, caa guy says there is no cause and its just one of those things. But we cant accept this because there must be a cause. Your neighbour who you ask for help says there is no cause. You boyfriend tripped and threw the glass, etc. Might be your dog is an alcoholic, an invisible person threw the glass, etc. But everything that happens must have a cause; if it didn"t have a cause, it: something happens and you know the cause, the cause is unknown or not apparent, it has no cause wouldn"t have. If something happens, it must have a cause. Determinism: all events must have a cause and every cause necessitates the effect which brings it about (if cause then effect) If you have c, by necessity, e will follow. happened in the first place. you have one, you cannot have the other!) Incompatibility principle: causality and freedom are incompatible; are.
