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  • The distinctive contribution that metaphysics makes to our understanding of reality is first that it considers questions about features of reality that the sciences don't, such as the intrinsic nature of causation or the dynamic character of temporal experience.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.

    Men   Law   Enlightened  
  • Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'.

    Thinking   Cosmos   World  
  • Often the features metaphysicians are interested in, like causation, time, and essence, involve features that seem so basic or are so generally embedded in the way we experience the world that it takes special attention and focus to draw them out and develop an account of their nature.

    Essence   Focus   Special  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start.

    S. T. Joshi (2003). “God's Defenders: What They Believe and why They are Wrong : William James, C.K. Chesterton, T.S. Eliot, William F. Buckley, Jerry Fallwell, Annie Dillard, C.S. Lewis”, Pyr Books
  • Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three.

    Law   Space   Would Be  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.24, editionNEXT.com
  • The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value" is one of preference. In classical science it was supposed that the world always works in terms of absolute certainty and that "cause" is the more appropriate word to describe it. But in modern quantum physics all that is changed. Particles "prefer" to do what they do. An individual particle is not absolutely committed to one predictable behavior. What appears to be an absolute cause is just a very consistent pattern of preferences.

  • The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and thus increase cancer rates. The levels of synthetic pesticide residues are trivial in comparison to natural chemicals, and thus their potential for cancer causation is extremely low. [Ames believes that "to eat your veggies" is the best way to prevent cancer.]

  • Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle.

    Charlie Munger's comments on the decline of family-controlled businesses when family foundations take over at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.
  • To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho-physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change. Otherwise none of our thoughts and feelings, not even our scientific doctrines, not even our dis -beliefs, could retain any value as revelations of the truth, for every one of them without exception flows from the state of their possessor's body at the time.

    William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.14, Courier Corporation
  • Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I talk to you now is as rigorous in causation as that you listen to me. There is no freedom until you go beyond Maya. That is the real freedom of the soul.

    Real   Soul   Mind  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.948, Manonmani Publishers
  • Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to prove in court that a person or group is experiencing racism because the standards are too narrow and too focused on individual intentions.

    "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.
  • Olympics are three times more likely to be employed than people of a similar age, ethnic and socioeconomic status who have not been participating. It's a correlation, not a causation as far as the statisticians go, but the fascinating question is; Is there something in participation in sports, in community-building, confidence building, self-image-building, strength building, social networking - that greatly enhance employability?

    Sports   Self   People  
    Source: abilitymagazine.com
  • This is the work of Nâma-Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea in your mind, is within Maya; for everything that is bound by the laws of time, space, and causation is within Maya.

    Law   Names   Ideas  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.570, Manonmani Publishers
  • Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature.... Without causation, nothing happens and without organization by an intelligent being, systems tend to lower and lower levels of complexity.

  • Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

    Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)
  • The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.

    Real   Men   Unhappy  
    Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human life, as to what is good and what is evil. This is true in the present day as at any former time. To understand an age or a nation, we must understand its philosophy, and to understand its philosophy we must ourselves be in some degree philosophers. There is here a reciprocal causation: the circumstances of men s lives do much to determine their philosophy, but, conversely, their philosophy does much to determine their circumstances.

    Philosophy   Men   Evil  
    "History of Western Philosophy".
  • Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

    Science   Law   Realms  
    Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”
  • The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

  • Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation.

    Law   Causes   Causation  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3609, Manonmani Publishers
  • Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts about places, paths, motions, agency, and causation underlie the literal or figurative meanings of tens of thousands of words and constructions, not only in English but in every other language that has been studied.

    Agency   Space   Research  
    Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.355, W. W. Norton & Company
  • This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.

    Top Down   Keys   Brain  
  • [G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and overt behavior. Predisposition via a long chain of complex chemical reactions, mediated through a more complex series of life's circumstances, does not equal identification or even causation.

    Long   Doe   Enzymes  
  • Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

    Fate   Goes On   World  
  • The law of Karma is the law of causation.

    Karma   Law   Causes  
    Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”
  • The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

  • All is bound by the law of causation

    Law   Causes   Causation  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.55, Advaita Ashrama
  • Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

    Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1948). “Soviet Biology: Report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences”
  • Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.55, Advaita Ashrama
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