Lexicon of Arguments

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III 155
Causation/necessity/Armstrong: 1) irreflexive: Nothing causes itself, relative to itself no relation. 2) nontransitive: cause is not transmitted, but a new universal, even probability = 1, requires new law.
3) allows no contra-position (reversal), the effect cannot be the cause of the cause
4) not symmetric, special case: causes in chain, but not reverse causality, merely necessary "precondition".
A chain of causes isnot reverse causality, only: each state has a necessary conditio.n - Conditions do not cause! - Analogy: Laws of nature do not evoke anything. - Therefore causal laws are only a subclass of laws of nature.
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Martin III 168
Constitution is not causation.

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