3062 | There are no causes, because they are relative, and alike things can't cause one another [Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius] |
1896 | If there were no causes then everything would have been randomly produced by everything [Sext.Empiricus] |
1897 | Knowing an effect results from a cause means knowing that the cause belongs with the effect, which is circular [Sext.Empiricus] |
1898 | Cause can't exist before effect, or exist at the same time, so it doesn't exist [Sext.Empiricus] |
8341 | Hume never even suggests that there is no such thing as causation [Hume, by Strawson,G] |
12113 | The search for first or final causes is futile [Comte] |
4542 | Science has taken the meaning out of causation; cause and effect are two equal sides of an equation [Nietzsche] |
4396 | The law of causality is a source of confusion, and should be dropped from philosophy [Russell] |
8376 | If causes are contiguous with events, only the last bit is relevant, or the event's timing is baffling [Russell] |
14172 | Moments and points seem to imply other moments and points, but don't cause them [Russell] |
14175 | We can drop 'cause', and just make inferences between facts [Russell] |
11954 | We should analyse causation in terms of powers [Molnar] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |
15126 | Maybe scientific causation is just generalisation about the patterns [Hawthorne] |
20650 | The Uncertainty Principle implies that cause and effect can't be measured [Watson] |
10388 | Causation is utterly essential for numerous philosophical explanations [Schaffer,J] |
10387 | The notion of causation allows understanding of science, without appearing in equations [Schaffer,J] |
14954 | Causation is found in the special sciences, but may have no role in fundamental physics [Ladyman/Ross] |