- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Causal Quotes
On tracing cause, effect, and meaning.
This page collects quotes on causal thinking — how scientists, historians, and philosophers trace effects back to their causes. The tone leans analytical, fitting for readers interested in the analysis side of reasoning.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.
- Analysis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.
- Connections
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- Nov 07, 2020
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beyond institutional amnesia, a rejection of causal analysis is the existential rock on which American Exceptionalism sits. The United States unique sense of itself depends on an ambiguous relationship to the past. History is affirmed, since it is America's unprecedented historical success that justifies the exceptionalism.
- Connection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020