Principle saying that, though the same cause must have the same effect each time, the same effect need not have the same cause each time. (Of course the cause on one occasion may be complex and involve many contributory factors; but could these be replaced by different factors when the effect next occurs?)
The principle seems plausible, but is this because the effect is only vaguely described? Death can have many different causes, but could the precise death undergone by Smith at midnight last Thursday?
Is it true that, given a complete description of the universe at one moment, we could in principle know what its future will be but not what its past was (ignoring for convenience problems about self-prediction and so on)?
Table of Contents
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- 2.1 Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- 2.2 Biblical Authority after Babel: Retrieving the Solas in the Spirit of Mere Protestant Christianity
- 2.3 Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change: How to Understand and Respond to Climate Science Deniers
- 2.4 We Believe in One God (Ancient Christian Doctrine)
- 2.5 The Many Panics of 1837
- 2.6 Advaita Vedanta : A Philosophical Reconstruction
- 2.7 God and the New Atheism: A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens
- 2.8 Who Really Feeds the World?: The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
- 2.9 The Immanent Person of the Holy Spirit from Anselm to Lombard: Divine Communion in the Spirit (Studies in Christian History and Thought)
- 2.10 Broad's Critical Essays in Moral Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change: How to Understand and Respond to Climate Science Deniers
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We Believe in One God (Ancient Christian Doctrine)
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The Many Panics of 1837
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Advaita Vedanta : A Philosophical Reconstruction
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God and the New Atheism: A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens
- Haught, John F. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
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The Immanent Person of the Holy Spirit from Anselm to Lombard: Divine Communion in the Spirit (Studies in Christian History and Thought)
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Broad's Critical Essays in Moral Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)
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- 368 Pages - 12/03/2014 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
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