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The principle of causality

שו”תThe principle of causality
asked 11 months ago

Is it possible to prove the principle of causality in individual cases? Suppose if I drop a pen 1000 times and it falls the same way each time, can’t we say that the probability of this happening is so low that it is more likely that there is a reason why it fell that way? I am not claiming that it is possible to prove in general that everything stems from a reason, these are individual cases.
Note: In a world without causality, a pen can be given an equal probability for everything it does, whether it stays in the air or teleports, falls diagonally as shown above, etc.


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מיכי Staff answered 11 months ago
You can infer this, but the question is why do you call what happened a “cause”? Hume claims that it is only correlation and temporal precedence without causation. The very assumption that without causation anything is possible is unacceptable to him. There is a correlation.

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אביב השני replied 11 months ago

It doesn't matter what Yom claims. What is true???

מיכי Staff replied 11 months ago

It's true that it can't be proven. And it's true that even without proof, in my opinion, this is the correct conclusion.

סיבה לא סיבתית replied 11 months ago

Won't a day accept that next time it won't happen?
He simply defines causality in a way that is causal.
What's wrong with that? Even without the element of causing.
But every time there is a pen, it will be like this and that.

מיכי Staff replied 10 months ago

What will happen next? We are talking about the necessity for there to always be a Creator.

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