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J.E.M. McTaggart - Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments |
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J.E.M. McTaggart (1866-1925), English idealist metaphysician. His major works include Studies in Hegelian Cosmology (1901), Some Dogmas of Religion (1906), and The Nature of Existence (1921). His fields of specialization were metaphysics, philosophy of time, and idealism.
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Causality: causality is the relation between two (separate) entities, whereby a state change of the one entity causes the state of the other entity to change. Nowadays it is assumed that an energy transfer is crucial for talking about a causal link.
D. Hume was the first to consistently deny the observability of cause and effect. (David Hume Eine Untersuchung über den menschlichen Verstand, Hamburg, 1993, p. 95).
_____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. |
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