Sentences with phrase «turned on this causation»

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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.

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.

Light turns on, baby stands in crib, flips switch would be correlataon without causation because of the temporal disassociation between effect and cause — unless that would imply that the light turning on causes the baby to flip the switch..

In his other finding on causation he ruled that even if the sisters had questioned Shaid Luqman about whether the directors» loan account was genuine rather than turning a blind eye to it, Shaid Luqman as an accomplished liar would easily have been able to convince them of its propriety.