Sentences with phrase «on causation on»

Dr. Farine, a defence expert tried to base his expert opinion on causation on some of the expert findings from the first trial.

Not exact matches

«We have a dead 15 - year - old with no causation on his part or anybody of the vehicle,» Merritt said on Monday.

And just as we frequently mistake correlation for causation, we're susceptible to what's called the «gambler's fallacy,» the belief that anomalies from expected outcomes in a random process are likely to be evened out by their opposites in the future — or, more simply, the idea that a roulette ball that's landed eight straight times on black is therefore more likely on the ninth spin to land on red.

At Oxford University, Tony Honoré made his name as an expert on causation and moral responsibility in the law.

On their motion for summary judgment, defendants argued that plaintiffs had not satisfied the loss causation requirement of Section 10 (b) because plaintiffs» losses were not caused by the revelation that First Solar had committed fraud.

The Ninth Circuit's holding in First Solar marks its first definitive resolution of the internal conflict in its case law on loss causation.

But if you are looking for consilience, in which multiple lines of independent evidence converge on the same target, then Schwartz's argument is a good one to have in your arsenal, for it fits nicely with biological arguments for intelligent design (cf. Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box), recent philosophical work on mental causation (cf. Robert Koons» Realism Regained), cosmological fine - tuning (cf. John Barrow and Frank Tipler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle), and consciousness studies (cf. Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe).

In the process, cadets tried to discern continuity and causation in complicated events, and from a name, mere words on a page, they worked to reverse - engineer a life.

In particular, I'm optimistic that Schwartz's concept of «mental force» can be given a solid metaphysical underpinning in terms of Rob Koons» above - mentioned work on mental causation.

If I turn on the light and it goes on, this is not necessary, it might not come on, but it is not random, there is causation: if the light does not come on, we assert that there must be some explanation: the bulb has «blown», a circuit - breaker or RCD has «tripped», a wire is loose or there is a power cut.

A manuscript on explanation and causation in history which my conversion led me to lay aside 90 per cent completed still sits on a shelf.

But Catholic thinking rejects the genetic fallacy applied to the natural world and contains instead a holistic understanding of reality based on all the faculties of reason and all the causes evident in nature» including the «vertical» causation of formality and finality.

The Tao, the ultimate principle of reality, is said to exercise its influence on nature and man not by active causation but by wu - wei, an untranslatable term for «active inaction» or, as I would prefer, «effective non-interference» or «non-interfering effectiveness.»

Of course the Greeks do not have the final word on the subject, and we can possibly learn a lot from science about the results of morphogenetic causation.

However, this reviewer was not convinced that the otherwise good discussion of emergence / top - down causation quite hit the nail on the head in addressing determinism.

Second, in our present cultural setting the AA emphasis on a physical component in alcoholism is» probably more effective than the concept of psychological causation in reducing the guilt - fear load and facilitating therapeutic change.

On the other hand, there certainly seems to be the possibility of breaking the chain of causation.

This means that the cause is external to the effect, but the effect is internal to its cause.8 On the doctrine of asymmetry, White - head resurrects concepts of efficient and final causation which he claims are immune from Humean attack.

It would appear that we do not have two different kinds of causation but two ways of speaking about a process, dependent on the speaker's perspective on a particular stage of the event - succession Supposing we are contemporaneous with an electron, we look at its present state in relation to its past, and we say «efficient causation»; if we look at its present state in relation to its future, we say «final causation.»

Focusing on the second proof, I question Aquinas» assertion that an infinite ordered series of causation is impossible.

The correlation study on intelligence is not a causation study but it could point at causation.

Efficient causation, on which this investigation shall concentrate, has in contrast presented serious problems.

Whitehead's account of final causation is a masterful recovery of a seminal idea which had fallen on hard times primarily because of the exaggerated claims of its proponents.

However, the primary focus on causation in the inner realm risks obscuring the gravity of trespasses in the «outer» world, the systematic and institutional nature of oppression, and the culpability of the perpetrating agents.

Let me suggest, too, that Whitehead similarly insists on finite creativity, though in different words, when he says that «all actual entities share with God» and that they have the «characteristic of self - causation» (PR 339).

For one, the universe may only appear to have order, just as causation may only appear to actually exist, when in fact any given event may be said to have unlimited causes and we only limit are decision on what «truly» caused something to GIVE order to the universe — think about all the finger pointing that goes on every time something unexpected happens.

Nick Kristof was just on Morning Joe talking about his latest column, which flirts with reverse causation on the issue of our mores and our political dispositions.

Its efficient causation (effect) on the world may diminish with time but it never ceases.

Now correlation does not imply causation, but it sure takes the wind out of the argument that you need god on your side for prosperity and happiness.

Even what I have exhibited as direct causation is indirect on a lower level.

Some are based on pure logic, some based on science and material causation, others on a mix of the two.

Part and parcel of such knowledge would be knowledge of the degree to which the mind can transcend efficient causation on the basis of normative ideals.

Again practicing philosophical generalization, Whitehead assimilates efficient causation to physical prehension: b acts on a when a prehends b (SMW 61, 155; PR 91, 327, 336, 361; AI 250f).

In other words, in the account of supervenient causation, M1 is said to be supervenient on P1, which is said to be a sufficient cause of P2.

Kim's writings on the mind as supervenient upon the body have revolved primarily around the effort to reconcile mental causation — «arguably... the central issue in the metaphysics of mind» (SM xv)-- with physicalism.

And, on the basis of what he calls» [Samuel] Alexander's dictum» — namely «To be real is to have causal powers» (SM 348)-- he says that the reality of the mental entails the reality of mental causation: «What possible good could causeless and effectless entities do for us?»

All the causality exercised on a present event, therefore, must come from prior events; no present event, including a moment of human experience, can exert causation upon itself so as to be (partially) self - determining.

I wanted there to be macroscopic forms as an essential ingredient in the theory, and these exerting an influence on what happened by providing a sort of filter into which the causation of quantum mechanics had to direct itself.

It is based on Driesch and in turn on Aristotle, and the apparent duality between formative and energetic causation has its ancestry in Aristotle's distinction between form and matter.

Or, on the contrary, may the whole phenomenon of regeneration; even in these startling instantaneous examples, possibly be a strictly natural process, divine in its fruits, of course, but in one case more and in another less so, and neither more nor less divine in its mere causation and mechanism than any other process, high or low, of man's interior life?

This depends on formative causation.

Third, efficient causation dependably passes on novelties introduced so that human purpose involving vast reaches of time and space may be expressed.

While the course of the world might go on with the asymmetrical causation Hartshorne describes, it also goes on, I believe, as a contrast between norms and chaos.

We have four philosopher - scientists in the Dialogues: Margaret Masterman, developing a new theory of language; Christopher Clarke, a mathematical physicist working out a theory of space; Rupert Sheldrake, who has a hypothesis of «formative causation» as supplementing energetic causation; and Jonathan Westphal, who is working on the philosophical psychology of colour perception.

Though correlation doesn't necessarily connote causation, it is interesting to note that 9 of the 10 most religious states in the US, as revealed by a 2008 Gallup poll of more than 355,000 adults in the U.S. regarding the importance of religion in their lives, are also on the CDC's list of the 10 fattest states.

Your last paragraph ignores the difference between an evolutionary hypothesis based on physical evidence and demonstrable mechanisms versus the magical causation inferred by scientifically ignorant ancient tribes resulting from a human tendency towards teleological thinking.

Darwin then distinguishes his «plan of creation» from the belief in «special creations» by drawing on a dual causation theory developed by Thomas Aquinas.

But briefly, it is this: «orthodox» scientific uneasiness about the role of purpose or final causation in planetary evolution has its grounds partly in the fact that over the centuries most people who have tried to describe the role of purpose on Earth haven't known «what» they were talking about.

The proper interpretation of Lamarckian notions in genetics thus depends fully on knowing «what» we are talking about: all new patterns of efficient causation in animal bodies can be traced to some occasions» subjective aims.

Classical theories of causation are unable to explain how a cause can have such an abiding influence on its effects.