The Need for Pluralism of Causality
Journal Title: Logic and Logical Philosophy - Year 2016, Vol 25, Issue 4
Abstract
It will be shown in this article that a pluralism of causality is needed. Not only, as might be expected, for such different domains as natural sciences and humanities, but even within the domain of physics different causal relations are necessary. This will be illustrated with examples from Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity, Thermodynamics and Quantum Mechanics. In these domains causal relations differ in their properties. A model for five types of causal relations is provided that is based on a decidable 6-valued logic.
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Paul Weingartner
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