Re: Determinism

From: Robin Faichney (robin@reborntechnology.co.uk)
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 09:02:23 BST

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    On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 06:37:59PM -0400, Aaron Agassi wrote:
    >
    > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:04:59PM +0100, Chris Taylor wrote:
    > > > Oh god. Theorising is obviously a bit tricky, so I'll put the point the
    > > > other way round - there is nothing which happens that does not have a
    > > > cause.
    > >
    > > Prove it.
    >
    > Ocam's Razor:
    > In explanation, don't multiply entities unnecessarily. Causality is
    > sufficient. The burden of evidentiary support rests upon the positive. It's
    > not for anyone else to prove that there ISN'T an unnecessary redundant
    > additional unknown factor aside from causality.

    "An unnecessary redundant additional unknown factor" is redundant (as
    well as incoherent). I'm only suggesting that perhaps some events don't
    have a cause. In this case, "there is nothing which happens that does
    not have a cause" is the positive upon which the burden of evidentiary
    support rests.

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