[FRIAM] FRIAM and causality

Günther Greindl guenther.greindl at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 06:36:32 EST 2007


Hi,

  That is cause-effect are
> not chains.  They're not total orders.  They're not linear or
> sequential.  Every effect has multiple (usually a dense infinity)
> causes.  And every cause has multiple (usually a dense infinity) of
> effects.  And the causes and effects are inextricably intertwined.

But orderability of events follows from Special Relativity. How do you 
reconcile that?

I am very skeptical of all attempts to dilute the concept of causality 
(same (skepticism) goes for retrocausality (see other thread), which 
seems to inspire people but which has never been convincingly shown to 
exist).

Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence.

Regards,
Günther

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Günther Greindl
Department of Philosophy of Science
University of Vienna
guenther.greindl at univie.ac.at
http://www.univie.ac.at/Wissenschaftstheorie/

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