Electronic Resource
Cambridge
:
Cambridge University Press
Philosophy
9 (1934), S. 450-460
ISSN:
0031-8191
Source:
Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
Topics:
Philosophy
Notes:
§ 21. Until a few years ago the hope of the physicist seems on the whole to have been that he would eventually be able to exhibit a single interconnected system of perfectly deterministic causal laws. He took the relation of cause and effect in all change to be such that from a determinate antecedent state of that which changes there must necessarily follow a different subsequent state of it, and it was assumed by him that complete knowledge of the antecedent state must enable exact prediction of the subsequent state. I do not think it matters here whether that which changes was taken as a limited subject of change or as the whole physical world.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031819100030230
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