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Proposition that everything has a cause
Universal causation is the proposition that everything in the universe has a cause and is thus an effect of that cause. This means that if a given event
Universal_causation
Argument for the existence of God
referred to as an argument from universal causation, a First Cause argument or prime mover argument. The concept of causation, or causal principle, is a fundamental
Cosmological_argument
Aquinas's arguments that there is a real God
Theologica. They are: the argument from "first mover"; the argument from universal causation; the argument from contingency; the argument from degree; the argument
Five_Ways_(Aquinas)
Axiom that has everything has a reason
deterministic system of universal causation. Necessary truths are generally regarded as not requiring a cause, since causation presupposes contingency
Principle of sufficient reason
Principle_of_sufficient_reason
Jungian concept of the meaningfulness of acausal coincidences
East; causality is the modern prejudice of the West" (see also: universal causation). Contemporary scholar L. K. Kerr writes: Jung also looked to modern
Synchronicity
Conflict between known physical principles (time symmetry and entropy)
the exact time reversible dynamical equations of motion and the universal causation proposition. The fluctuation theorem is obtained using the fact that
Loschmidt's_paradox
Philosophy that all events, past, present, and future, have already been established
cited Bertrand Russell's view of causal determinism: "The law of universal causation . . . may be enunciated as follows:...given the state of the whole
Predeterminism
Topics referred to by the same term
(philosophy) Fallacy of the single cause Humean definition of causality Universal causation, the proposition that everything in the universe has a cause and
Causality_(disambiguation)
1839 German-language essay by Schopenhauer
absolute randomness, which can hardly be thought of; the world without universal causation would be "randomness with no sense in it". Through that which we
On_the_Freedom_of_the_Will
Bias towards continuity
the same general sense; "synechology" is a theory of continuity or universal causation; "synechia" is a term in ophthalmology for a morbid union of parts
Synechism
How one process influences another
Aristotle further discerned two modes of causation: proper (prior) causation and accidental (chance) causation. All causes, proper and accidental, can
Causality
Study of fundamental reality
their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, change, causation, and the relation between matter and mind. It is one of the oldest branches
Metaphysics
Theorem in statistical mathematics
non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. The FT (together with the universal causation proposition) gives a generalisation of the second law of thermodynamics
Fluctuation_theorem
Topics referred to by the same term
award bestowed to military units by some countries Principle of Universal Causation, in philosophy Puc (disambiguation) PuC, plutonium carbide This disambiguation
PUC
The study of ligaments. synechology The theory of continuity or universal causation. synechiology synecology The ecological study of whole plant or animal
List of words with the suffix -ology
List_of_words_with_the_suffix_-ology
Study of the development of metaphysics
Armstrong developed elaborate theories on a range of topics such as universals, causation, possibility and necessity and abstract objects. However, the focus
History_of_metaphysics
Friedrich Schiller's 1789 inaugural lecture on philosophy of history
What Is, and to What End do We Study, Universal History? (German: Was heißt und zu welchem Ende studiert man Universalgeschichte?) is an inaugural academic
What Is, and to What End do We Study, Universal History?
What_Is,_and_to_What_End_do_We_Study,_Universal_History?
Theoretical paradox resulting from time travel
fiction Time travel Wormhole Jan Faye (November 18, 2015), "Backward Causation", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved May 25, 2019 Thorne,
Temporal_paradox
Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist (1711–1776)
regularity theory of causation is only a theory about ... causation so far as we know about it in the world." As far as "causation as it is in the world
David_Hume
Study of health and disease within a population
biological sciences. Major areas of epidemiological study include disease causation, transmission, outbreak investigation, disease surveillance, environmental
Epidemiology
Event deemed by law to be the effective cause of an injury
deem the event to be the cause of that injury. There are two types of causation in the law: cause-in-fact, and proximate (or legal) cause. Cause-in-fact
Proximate_cause
Open question in philosophy of how abstract minds interact with physical bodies
non-reductive theories. The mind-body problem raises fundamental questions about causation between mental and physical events, the nature of consciousness, personal
Mind–body_problem
basis is the confusion of association with causation, either by inappropriately deducing (or rejecting) causation or a broader failure to properly investigate
List_of_fallacies
American medical drama television series (1972–1977)
medical drama television series jointly produced by Mark VII Limited and Universal Television. Debuting on NBC as a midseason replacement on January 15,
Emergency!
Bantu language official in Rwanda
implies an indirect causation (similar to English have in "I had him write a paper), while other causatives imply a direct causation (similar to English
Kinyarwanda
Causality as defined by David Hume
experienced is one event following another. The reductionist approach to causation can be exemplified with the case of two billiard balls: one ball is moving
Humean definition of causality
Humean_definition_of_causality
Field of statistics
since it would then lack strict universality, or necessity". Outside the field of philosophy, theories of causation can be identified in classical mechanics
Causal_analysis
Fundamental Buddhist teaching
Dependent origination can be contrasted with the classic Western concept of causation in which an action by one thing is said to cause a change in another thing
Pratītyasamutpāda
Concept in philosophy
testing. According to Armstrong, universals are independent of the mind, and this is critical in accounting for causation and nomic connection. Abstract
Moderate_realism
Aspect of verb grammar
University of Chicago Press. p.158–177 Song, J.J. (1996). Causatives and causation: A universal-typological perspective. London and New York: Addison Wesley Longman
Causative
American theoretical physicist and astrobiologist
universal traits for life. It was shown that in biological systems the components are subordinate to the whole, in what is called top-down causation.
Sara_Imari_Walker
English author and parapsychological researcher (born 1942)
by James Lovelock in Nature, who argued that "the theory of formative causation makes testable predictions," noting that "nothing has yet been reported
Rupert_Sheldrake
Theory that discusses human intelligence from an epistemological perspective
magical, animistic, or "non-natural" conceptions of causation and mechanical or "naturalistic" causation. This conjunction of natural and non-natural causal
Piaget's theory of cognitive development
Piaget's_theory_of_cognitive_development
Metaphysical question
everything has a cause because of our experience for the necessity of causation, the formation of the universe is outside our experience and may be subject
Why_is_there_anything_at_all?
View that mind is a ubiquitous feature of reality
motivation, or agency. Drawing on the "argument from the experience of causation”, historically traced to philosophers such as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Panpsychism
One of the principal works of Aristotle
treating abstract subjects, notably substance theory, different kinds of causation, form and matter, the existence of mathematical objects and the cosmos
Metaphysics_(Aristotle)
Publication ranking national happiness based on respondent ratings of their lives
The reports' variables only show correlation, not causation (see Correlation does not imply causation). The report measures subjective well-being using
World_Happiness_Report
Question regarding language and thought
research". Coming from these two perspectives (i.e., those outlined in the causation above, and the models of development), this leads Bornstein to conclude
Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate
Linguistic_relativity_and_the_color_naming_debate
State of being real
objects and their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, causation, matter, and mind. As its subdiscipline, ontology examines the nature
Existence
Scientific study of life
extensively to the development of biological knowledge. He explored biological causation and the diversity of life. His successor, Theophrastus, began the scientific
Biology
American philosopher (1941–2001)
quantified modal logic, the development of counterpart theory, counterfactual causation, and the position called "Humean supervenience". Most comprehensively
David_Lewis_(philosopher)
Question of whether inductive reasoning leads to definitive knowledge
reasoning alone cannot establish the grounds of causation. Instead, the human mind imputes causation to phenomena after repeatedly observing a connection
Problem_of_induction
View in Christian theology
passive aspect in [monergism]) is the work of God alone, such instrumental causation makes conversion (its effect) passive". Barrett 2013, pp. xxiv–xxv. "Erickson
Monergism
American political party
sales to China. As of 2025[update] the Republican Party supports near-universal tariffs, but that has not always been the case. For example, during the
Republican Party (United States)
Republican_Party_(United_States)
2019 non-fiction book by Tom Holland
also writing that "his theory has flaws", and that "correlation is not causation". Samuel Moyn, writing for the Financial Times, similarly stated that
Dominion_(Holland_book)
Common characteristics of all life
reconcile with a mechanistic conception of causation, so he postulated a special form of natural causation, the "soul", that allows living things to be
Definition_of_life
Interpretation of Hinduism
also called neo-Hinduism, Hindu modernism, Global Hinduism and Hindu Universalism, are terms to characterise interpretations of Hinduism that developed
Neo-Vedanta
1994 product liability lawsuit
Ellman Yount v. City of Sacramento Pearson v. Callahan Saucier v. Katz Causation Summers v. Tice Ybarra v. Spangard Ultramares Corp. v. Touche Gross v
Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants
Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants
German philosopher (1724–1804)
universal and necessary validity of the pure concepts of the understanding, or the categories, for instance, the concepts of substance and causation.
Immanuel_Kant
Metaphysical dependence relation between facts or entities
grounded in the existence of its members.” These are not claims about causation—grounding is taken to be atemporal and non-empirical—but about what metaphysically
Metaphysical_grounding
Concept in ethics
punishment and reward. While he acknowledges that libertarian agent causation, the capacity of agents as substances to cause actions without being causally
Moral_responsibility
Indian Mahayana Buddhist philosopher (c. 150–c. 250)
unfounded. Things arise from other things (causation from another). This is the most natural understanding of causation, defended by Abhidharma Buddhists and
Nagarjuna
Unpredictable phenomenon in complex systems
do all the work in explaining why any alleged effect of M occurred? If causation is understood as nomological (law-based) sufficiency, P, as M's emergence
Emergence
Loaned translation of an expression
Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-1723-X 2009. "Hybridity versus Revivability: Multiple Causation, Forms and Patterns." Journal of Language Contact (2):40–67. Look up calque
Calque
Type of AI with wide-ranging abilities
Goebel 1998 and Nilsson 1998. Johnson 1987 de Charms, R. (1968). Personal causation. New York: Academic Press. Van Eyghen, Hans (2025). "AI Algorithms as
Artificial general intelligence
Artificial_general_intelligence
Scientific methodology
Green & Co: 1910), pp. 17–18) Norton, "Causation as folk science", in Price & Corry, eds, Mature Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality
Deductive-nomological_model
American inventor of algorithmic probability and artificial intelligence researcher
hypothesis will have a zero probability. This enables Bayes' rule (of causation) to be used to predict the most likely next event in a series of events
Ray_Solomonoff
Branch of philosophy relating to spatiality and temporality
metaphysical view, in which the direction of time follows from an asymmetry of causation. We know more about the past because the elements of the past are causes
Philosophy_of_space_and_time
American social scientist (1916–1996)
human culture". Journal of Social Issues 28 (3), 21–37. 1974, "Downward causation in hierarchically organised biological systems". In Francisco Jose Ayala
Donald_T._Campbell
Italian Dominican friar and philosopher (1225–1274)
everyone understands by God. Causation: As in the case of motion, nothing can cause itself, and an infinite chain of causation is impossible, so there must
Thomas_Aquinas
Philosophical view of scientific observation
Critique of Pure Reason: "In brief, there is no knowledge without causation, no causation without necessitation, no necessitation by intrinsic properties
Epistemic_humility
Progressive neurodegenerative disease
unclear whether this results from a neuroprotective effect or reverse causation.[clarification needed] Various tobacco and smoke components have been
Parkinson's_disease
Philosophy of science and nature
"relations of production" and presented a universal "law of motion" of society, a substantive theory of historical causation. Engels's approach was more sociological
Dialectical_materialism
Communication theory
Storytelling is one of the first language skills that children develop. It is universal across cultures and time. Walter Fisher conceptualized the Narrative Paradigm
Narrative_paradigm
Defrauding of insurance
Criminal law Elements Actus reus Mens rea Causation Concurrence Scope of criminal liability Accessory Accomplice Complicity Corporate Principal Vicarious
Insurance_fraud
effect Private language argument Problem of induction Problem of mental causation Problem of other minds Prohairesis Property (ownership) Property (characteristic)
List of philosophical concepts
List_of_philosophical_concepts
Value judgment that procreation is unethical
becomes. Akerma thinks that for those who want to lead ethical lives, the causation of suffering requires a justification. Man can no longer shed responsibility
Antinatalism
American political party
higher minimum wages, equal opportunity employment, Social Security, universal health care, public education, and subsidized housing. They also support
Democratic Party (United States)
Democratic_Party_(United_States)
Overview of how Japanese verbs conjugate
meanings such as negation, present and past tense, volition, passive voice, causation, imperative and conditional mood, and ability. There are also special
Japanese_conjugation
Merging different sets of information, texts, ideas, opinions
can be illustrated by instances in which a motion is merged with or a causation with manner, e.g. the bride floated towards her future. In this example
Conflation
Insurance against damage to buildings while they are under construction
Conventional Wisdom on Builders Risk: From Named-Insured Status to Concurrent Causation". 31 (15). Retrieved 25 February 2019. "Builders' Risk Insurance". University
Builder's_risk_insurance
In religion and philosophy, immaterial essence of a living being
interactionism is its commitment to 'two-way' causation – mental-to-physical causation and physical-to-mental causation." Parallelism sidesteps debates about
Soul
Differentiating and characterizing feature
How We Get Our Grip on the Ultimate Nature of Objects, Properties, and Causation". Metaphilosophy. 50 (5): 688–707. doi:10.1111/meta.12391. S2CID 211938090
Property_(philosophy)
Perpetrator of a mass shooting
Gun politics in the United States NY SAFE Act STOP School Violence Act Universal background check Reactions 2023 Tennessee House of Representatives expulsions
Active_shooter
American politician (born 1963)
"universally condemned", but wanted an amendment to clarify that the causation of non-fatal injuries would not be considered lynching. Paul was one of
Rand_Paul
1929 book by Alfred North Whitehead
causality'. An example of singular causation is that I woke this morning because my alarm clock rang. An example of nomic causation is that alarm clocks generally
Process_and_Reality
Conscious event, perception or practical knowledge
Psychophysical Causation". Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 70 (3): 263–76. doi:10.1080/00048409212345161. Robb, David; Heil, John (2021). "Mental Causation". The
Experience
Warm-blooded animals with wings and feathers
011802.132439. Gowaty, Patricia A.; Buschhaus, Nancy (1998). "Ultimate causation of aggressive and forced copulation in birds: Female resistance, the CODE
Bird
1739–40 book by David Hume
effect cannot be justified by reason; instead, our faith in induction and causation is caused by mental habit and custom. Hume defends a sentimentalist account
A_Treatise_of_Human_Nature
English tort law case on factual causation
English tort law case. It concerns the problematic question of factual causation, and the interplay of the "but for" test and its relaxation through a
Bailey_v_Ministry_of_Defence
Experience of feeling or emotion
neuroticism and life experiences: A five-wave, 16-year study to test reciprocal causation". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 107 (4): 751–764. doi:10
Affect_(psychology)
Mathematical use of "for all" and "there exists"
in the domain of discourse satisfy an open formula. For instance, the universal quantifier ∀ {\displaystyle \forall } in the first-order formula ∀ x x
Quantifier_(logic)
View that free will does not exist
agent as the most favorable at the moment turns out real. The validity of causation for any mental event becomes apparent taking into account their neurophysiological
Hard_determinism
Specialty in philosophy, focused on German language origin
Perler, Dominik. Review of Occasionalism and the Debate About Causation in Early Modern Germany, by Christian Henkel. Journal of the History of
German_philosophy
Redbox Automated Retail LLC v. Universal City Studios LLLP, Dist. Court, D. Delaware 2009 was a case before Robert B. Kugler concerning copyright misuse
Redbox Automated Retail LLC v. Universal City Studios LLLP
Redbox_Automated_Retail_LLC_v._Universal_City_Studios_LLLP
Plot using the dispersal of scattered dots to show the relationship between variables
and a scatter plot will illustrate only the degree of correlation (not causation) between two variables.[citation needed] A scatter plot can suggest various
Scatter_plot
Intentional killing of female infants in India
Clearance Social security Standard of living Street vendors Transport Universal basic income Urbanisation Unemployment Widening income gap Education Literacy
Female_infanticide_in_India
19th-century American spiritual movement
Thought Simplified, Wood articulated a structured philosophy of mental causation grounded in disciplined thought and constructive affirmation. His writings
New_Thought
Italian-born philosopher (born 1958)
formal semantics) and metaphysics (mainly mereology and mereotopology, causation, events, and issues relating to identity and persistence through time)
Achille_Varzi_(philosopher)
Figure in Greek mythology
religious import of Aeschylus, "In Aeschylus, as in Homer, the two levels of causation, the supernatural and the human, are co-existent and simultaneous, two
Prometheus
Economic theory by Terry Pratchett
often incur higher expenses due to lack of options Circular cumulative causation – Theory of economic and social reform developed by Gunnar Myrdal and
Boots_theory
American religious leader (1801–1877)
called the "mantle phenomenon") as an authentic experience, whatever its causation. One source is skeptical of the "mantle phenomenon" as historically authentic
Brigham_Young
Idea that everyone faces consequence as they deserve
expect consequences as the result of – either a universal force that restores moral balance or a universal connection between the nature of actions and their
Just-world_fallacy
Greek Stoic philosopher (c.279–c.206 BC)
chain of causation. The Stoics believed that the universe is God, and Chrysippus affirmed that "the universe itself is God and the universal outpouring
Chrysippus
Vedic principle of universal nature order
helped to overcome this problem as it was conceived as a "law of moral causation" which effectively excused the gods and Ṛta from the appearance of evil
Ṛta
English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)
what Whitehead terms "symbolic reference", which links appearance with causation in a process that is so automatic that both people and animals have difficulty
Alfred_North_Whitehead
Philosophical approach
An example of singular causation might be that "I woke this morning because my alarm clock rang"; an example of nomic causation is that "alarm clocks generally
Process_philosophy
Philosophical problem-solving principle
explanations to other simple explanations (cf. also Correlation does not imply causation). William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347) was an English Franciscan friar and
Occam's_razor
therefore on account of this Fallacy of assuming that correlation implies causation. cum laude with praise The standard formula for academic Latin honors
List_of_Latin_phrases_(full)
Paradox involving infinity
Possibility. Clarendon Press. p. 154. Pruss, Alexander (2018). Infinity, Causation, and Paradox. Oxford University Press. p. 55. Benardete, J. (1964). Infinity:
Grim_Reaper_paradox
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n.
A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it.
n.
Love; universal benevolence; good will.
a.
Constituting or considered as a whole; total; entire; whole; as, the universal world.
n.
One who believes in the law of universal causation.
n.
The universal remedy of Paracelsus.
v. t.
To make universal; to generalize.
a.
Adapted or adaptable to all or to various uses, shapes, sizes, etc.; as, a universal milling machine.
n.
Universal measurement.
n.
That species of attraction or force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other; called also attraction of gravitation, universal gravitation, and universal gravity. See Attraction, and Weight.
n.
Skepticism; universal doubt.
adv.
Universally.
adv.
In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures.
a.
Implying universal presence.
a.
Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice.
a.
Forming the whole of a genus; relatively unlimited in extension; affirmed or denied of the whole of a subject; as, a universal proposition; -- opposed to particular; e. g. (universal affirmative) All men are animals; (universal negative) No men are omniscient.
a.
Universal.
n.
The whole; the general system of the universe; the universe.
v. t.
To render universal; to enlarge.
n.
A universal proposition. See Universal, a., 4.