He is led mainly by the analogy of natural causality with that of human activity and passivity, e.
Kant goes further and says that Hume failed to recognize the full consequences of his own analysis, for the notion of causality is not the only one which the understanding uses to represent a priori the connection of objects.
Hume's important discovery that we do not observe causality in the external world, demonstrates only the difficulty of the interpretation of causality.
But for practical reasons, again, thecausality of the man in himself must be thought of as entirely different from, and opposed to, the mechanical causality of the sense world.
The Scottish skeptic had said that the necessary bond between cause and effect can neither be perceived nor logically demonstrated; that, therefore, the relation ofcausality is an idea which we--with what right?
The contemplation which is free from causality and will is the essence of aesthetic life; the partial and total sublation, the quieting and negation of the will, that of ethical life.
Space, time, and causality spread out like a triple veil between us and the per se of things, and prevent a vision of the true nature of the world.
Causality itself cannot be perceived; we infer it from the constant succession of two phenomena, without being able to show warrant for the transformation of thereafter into thereby.
The concepts substance and causality are examples of such false reference.
Hence the idea of causalityhas a purely subjective significance, not the objective one which we ascribe to it.
The causality of things in themselves is the bridge which enables us to cross the gulf between the immanent world of representations and the transcendent world of being.
Thus it is only by subjecting the succession of phenomena to the law of causality that empirical knowledge of them is possible.
The principle of causalitymay lead up to it, although it does not include within itself the proof of the self-existence of the cause.
The argument for the Divine existence which proceeds on the principle of causality is generally called the cosmological argument, but sometimes, and perhaps more accurately, the aetiological argument.
Although causality does not involve design, nor design goodness, design involves causality, and goodness both causality and design.
But the principle ofcausality alone or by itself is quite insufficient to lead the mind up to the apprehension of Deity; and an immediate and direct consciousness of far more within us than will is required to make that apprehension possible.
In fact, his objections openly proceed on the assumption that the principle of causality is only applicable within the sphere of sense experience.
When we assume the principle of causality in the argument for the existence of God, what precisely is it that we assume?
We have now to consider the principle of causality so far as it is implied in the theistic inference, and the theistic inference so far as it is conditioned by the principle of causality.
Science, on the other hand, forces us to give up our belief in the simple causality exactly where everything looks so easily comprehensible and we are merely the victims of appearances.
For the latter would wish to make us believe that we see a very simple causality, where, in reality, an exceedingly complex causality is in operation.
If it be said that through the successive causality of Nescience and so on, the formation of aggregates and other matters may be satisfactorily accounted for.
To understand the causality of Brahman as a merely mediate one would be to contradict all those statements of immediate origination.
The causality with regard to all actions which is here described is again a special attribute of the highest Self.
It follows from all this that Brahman's causality is not contrary to reason.
The causality of the Undeveloped having thus been ascertained, such expressions as 'it thought, may I be many,' must be interpreted as meaning its being about to proceed to creation.
Brahman which is the cause of the whole world, and that hence the Vedânta-texts nowhere intimate that general causality belongs either to the individual soul or to the Pradhâna under the soul's guidance.
Everywhere, in fact, the texts proclaim the causality of the highest Self only.
In psychology one must be on one's guard against exclusive reliance either upon causalityor upon teleology.
In such a case, the Freudian system begins at once to burrow in the inner causality of the illness: What did the initial anxiety-dreams contain.
As regards the much-discussed symbolism of dreams, the value attached to it varies according to whether the standpoint of causality or of finality is adopted.
We must always bear the fact in mind that causality is a point of view.
But causality is only one principle, and psychology essentially cannot be exhausted by causal methods only, because the mind lives by aims as well.
The view-point of causality is obviously more in accord with the scientific spirit of our time, with its strictly causalistic reasoning.
In so far as we apply the view point of causality to the material that has been associated with the dream, we reduce the manifest dream content to certain fundamental tendencies or ideas.
A moment's reflection will suffice to convince us that a limitation posited from without would be as fatal to the idea of God as a supposed inherent necessity determining the Divine causality from within.
God is the sole causalityof the heavens and the earth, in the most absolute sense.
No philosophic writers have more ably and clearly enounced this law of causality than the freedomists Reid, Stewart, and Cousin.
They might have been all "miraculous," and yet the true law of causality would not have been violated, or in any way invalidated.
Where, then, is the discrepancy between the universal principle of causality and the doctrine of alternative causation?
It is not clear from the analysis whether the self is immediately observed as an acting or originating cause, or whether reflection working on the principle of causality is compelled to infer its existence and character.
According to Cousin, there are but two primary laws of thought, that of causality and that of substance.
If self is actually so given, we do not need the principle of causality to infer it; if it is not so given, causalitycould never give us either the notion or the fact of self as a cause or force, far less as an ultimate one.
Immediate spontaneous apperception may seize this supreme reality; but to vindicate it by reflection as an inference on the principle of causality is impossible.
In the order of acquisition of our knowledge, causality precedes substance, or rather both are given us in each other, and are contemporaneous in consciousness.
Causality cannot add to the number of our notions,--cannot add to the number of realities we know.
In the order of nature, that of substance is the first and causality second.
Starting from sensation as our basis, causality could never give us this, even though it be allowed that sensation is impersonal to the extent of being independent of our volition.
The point is, that anyone who sees his way to entertaining them thereby furnishes himself with a larger field of causality for explaining variations than does a man who limits that field to causes internal to organisms--even though, like W.
It is just the same as if I sought to find out how freedom itself is possible as the causality of a will.
For in such a being we conceive a reason that is practical, that is, has causality in reference to its objects.
This latter, however, we could not prove to be actually a property of ourselves or of human nature; only we saw that it must be presupposed if we would conceive a being as rational and conscious of its causality in respect of its actions, i.
Every rational being reckons himself qua intelligence as belonging to the world of understanding, and it is simply as an efficient cause belonging to that world that he calls his causality a will.
In this view it would no doubt be a contradiction to suppose the causality of the same subject (that is, his will) to be withdrawn from all the natural laws of the sensible world.
For something analogous toCausality would be necessary to experience, and the relativity of the form would still necessarily hold.
And unfortunately they do not destroy the link of causality between drink and crime.
One must hold that since God is the cause of things through His knowledge, the knowledge of God extends itself as far as His causality extends.
Space, time and causality do not appertain to him, for he at once forms their essence and transcends them.
Thus we see that Nyâya relied on empirical induction based on uniform and uninterrupted agreement in nature, whereas the Buddhists assumed a priori principles of causality or identity of essence.
In denying the causalityof karma it is meant that karma is not the cause of dravya and karma [Footnote ref 3].
But when we turn to look forward, it is certain that the physico-chemical processes if left to their own causality must immediately bring about the destruction of the organism.
The history of the doctrine of causality presents a number of widely different theories, a brief outline of which is all that we can here give.
The idea of causality is, indeed, suggested by what I have seen, but is not given by sense.
But is not this principle of causalityderived from experience?
Do we know that causality is unlimited, or that it is universally valid?
It is clear that to attain a general idea of causalityas universal, &c.
But it seems to me that needless obscurity is imported into this matter, by not considering in what our own idea of causality consists.
I may here observe that the earliest age in the infant at which I have observed such appreciation of causality to occur is during the sixth month.
It is said, description leaves the sense of causality unsatisfied.
A knowledge of causality in this form certainly reaches far below the level of Schopenhauer's pet dog, to whom it was ascribed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "causality" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
