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7/7/2025, 2:56:17 AM
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>>24527498
>>24526452
Cause had already been ruined by Hume. Hume was exactly right about how incoherent Enlightenment theories of causation were. Reducing everything to accidental temporal sequences of mechanism had already made causation nothing more than constant conjunction. Kant is just dealing with the fallout of the abandonment of causality in any thick sense. Russell also wasn't wrong to want to eliminate the totally deflated notion of cause he had left. Only lately have physicists really come around on causes and started including formal causation again, and the some biologists in the biosemiotics paradigm bring back all four causes in a more robust way.
The mechanistic world was supposed to be a simplifying assumption, a sort of bracketing, but Enlightenment philosophers quickly absolutized it into a horrid metaphysics. But really, the problem starts with nominalism.
The Reformation drive to just throw shit out without reading it really did a lot of damage, and it's only papered over because progress in methodology allowed technology to progress decently enough. We're still living with the fallout.
>>24527498
>>24526452
Cause had already been ruined by Hume. Hume was exactly right about how incoherent Enlightenment theories of causation were. Reducing everything to accidental temporal sequences of mechanism had already made causation nothing more than constant conjunction. Kant is just dealing with the fallout of the abandonment of causality in any thick sense. Russell also wasn't wrong to want to eliminate the totally deflated notion of cause he had left. Only lately have physicists really come around on causes and started including formal causation again, and the some biologists in the biosemiotics paradigm bring back all four causes in a more robust way.
The mechanistic world was supposed to be a simplifying assumption, a sort of bracketing, but Enlightenment philosophers quickly absolutized it into a horrid metaphysics. But really, the problem starts with nominalism.
The Reformation drive to just throw shit out without reading it really did a lot of damage, and it's only papered over because progress in methodology allowed technology to progress decently enough. We're still living with the fallout.
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