Lexicon of Arguments

 

IV 152 f
Causality/Strawson: because of different possible descriptions in reality dependent on generality.
Hume was right with that. - But it's also not a selection of individual descriptions.
>Generality, >Generalization, >Description, >Description dependence, >Context dependence, >Causal dependence, >Causal explanation.
IV 157
Causality/StrawsonVsHume: he overlooks the very obvious fact that objects exert physical force. (Dennett: and that is observable).
>Causality/Hume, >Causality/Dennett.
I 162
Pro Hume: you can observe many reactions without knowing what forces are at work.
IV 163
VsHume: regularity is time neutral, it could also be reversed. (s) because (type-type, not type-token).
>Regularity, >Regularity theory.
IV 165
VsHume: we learn the regularity, because we already have the concept of causality.
IV 172
Strawson: the utmost we can recognize are probability laws.
>Probability, >Probability laws.
Causality/Language: more in transitive verbs than in the word "cause".
IV 175
Common Causes: easily possible: E.g. malaria - cause: denotes relation that occurs in different modes of being