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The cause of causality

שו”תCategory: faithThe cause of causality
asked 6 years ago

In the SD
peace,
I wanted to ask what the reason is for accepting the principle of causality? It sounds completely reasonable. Just as analogy sounds like a reasonable way of thinking.
But why do we really have to accept this principle at the noumenal level? I really don’t understand why we should accept analogies either, but I have a feeling that it is based on this principle.
 
 

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מיכי Staff answered 6 years ago

You’re just asking why you should accept what I think. That would be a bit of a skeptic. I have no answer to that, except that this is what I think. Even if I explain it to you, you’ll ask why you should accept my explanation.

ד replied 6 years ago

But the Rabbi admits that there must be a connecting factor between thinking and the world itself. Then the question is why assume that that connecting factor really exists or functions properly.

And regarding which we will never be able to know the true answer
. After all, we are not him.

מיכי replied 6 years ago

There are indications that it works properly. Scientific theories work. But I already answered above. These are skeptical questions and I have nothing more to say about them.

d replied 6 years ago

I will refer to the last line of the first answer – It says this
” Even if I explain it to you, you will ask why you should accept my explanation.”.

I do not think this is a correct claim at all. After all, there must be a mediating factor between thinking and the world, if there is no such mediating factor or if we do not know whether it is functioning properly, the claim that this is a skeptical question is not reasonable. After all, how do scientific theories work? It is completely unlikely that it will work. We would expect that we would not be able to know anything about the world as if we were walking in the dark.

And as much as you say that it is a factor A, we must know whether it is itself a factor that truly supervises thinking or a factor that spoils it. But since we are not A, we will never know the answer.
And thus a bleak situation will be created in which the claim that the factor does exist and functions properly is no more unjust than the claim that it does not exist or does not function properly. And this is the conclusion of postmodernism

מיכי Staff replied 6 years ago

I didn't understand your argument. If I offered you an explanation, you would say that it also depends on assumptions and a mediating factor and you wouldn't accept it. So this is indeed pure skepticism.

D replied 6 years ago

Right.
But until you offer a reasonable explanation, you agree that there is no reason to trust the implications of thought at the level of the Naumana.
One could say that there is a God here somewhere as the God of the gaps.

מיכי replied 6 years ago

This is really a gap of gaps, but as I explained in my post, this is a fundamental gap (that will not be filled by scientific research) and therefore the argument is good.

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