Dictionary

causal dependence See DEPENDENCE.

causation, substance See AGENT CAUSATION.

causation, transeunt See AGENT CAUSATION.

causative verb See ACTION VERB.

cause, efficient See ARISTOTLE.

cause, final See ARISTOTLE.

causation, regularity theory of See CAUSATION.

causation, probabilistic See CAUSATION.

causation, manipulation analysis of See CAUSA -. TIO.

causal theory of proper names the view that proper names designate what they name by...

causal theory of reference See PHILOSOPHY OF LAN-. GUAG. causation, the relation between cause...

causation, backward See CAUSATION.

causation, counterfactual analysis of See CAUSA -. TIO.

causation, immanent See AGENT CAUSATION.

Cavendish Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673), English author of some dozen...

Cavell Stanley Louis (b.1926), American philosopher whose work has explored skepticism...

cave, allegory of the See PLATO.

causa sui (Latin 'cause of itself'), an expression applied to God to mean...

causes, the four See ARISTOTLE.

cause, sustaining See CAUSATION.

cause, superseding See CAUSATION.

cause, preemptive See CAUSATION.

cause, material See ARISTOTLE.

cause, formal See ARISTOTLE.

CH See Appendix of Special Symbols.

ceteris paribus clause See PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.

certainty the property of being certain, which is either a psychological...

central state materialism See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

ATON . Celsus (late second century A.D.?), anti-Christian writer known only as...

chance See DETERMINISM.