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the way to a straightforward construction of the causal topology ... of Minkowski space." Causal efficacy propagates no faster than light. Thus, the notion...

Svenn (2013). "Self-Efficacy Is Mainly Genetic, Not Learned: A Multiple-Rater Twin Study on the Causal Structure of General Self-Efficacy in Young People"...

effect. So, for Davidson, "reasons are causes" and this explains the causal efficacy of the mental. The principle of the nomological character of causality...

spatio-temporal continuity, (2) accounting for intersubjectivity, and (3) the causal efficacy of matter on subjects. For the first and third objections, Vasubandhu...

holds that to "confirm causal efficacy" (arthakriyāsthiti) is to have a justification that an object of cognition has the causal powers we expected. That...

and technologies. Like genes, memes are selfish replicators and have causal efficacy; in other words, their properties influence their chances of being...

phenomena, causal autonomy is denied to one side of the relation. This can take the form of autonomy being denied to agency with causal efficacy only granted...

causation and the philosophy of mind, questioning the coherence and causal efficacy of emergent properties. Major Work: Mind in a Physical World Michael...

Vaccine efficacy or vaccine effectiveness is the percentage reduction of disease cases in a vaccinated group of people compared to an unvaccinated group...

(phala). According to K.L. Dhammajoti, for the Sarvastivada school, 'causal efficacy is the central criterion for the reality/existence (astitva) of a dharma'...

results, efficacy or causal function and thus can be determined to be unreal, but entities we generally accept as being "real" have actual causal results...

related by cause and effect to be time-like separated, that is that causal efficacy propagates no faster than light. Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism...

requires cause and effect to be time-like separated events where the causal efficacy does not travel faster than the speed of light. Maxwell's laws are...

Samkhya Yoga mind is an evolute of matter, mental events are granted causal efficacy and are therefore able to initiate bodily motions. The Dvaita Vedanta...

moment in which it discharges its causal efficacy and then self-destructs, the stream of experience is then a causal series of momentary dharmas. The issue...

do not exist at a physical level, Searle argues, they cannot have causal efficacy and thus cannot cause consciousness. There is no physical law, Searle...

modes, causal efficacy (or "physical prehension") and presentational immediacy (or "conceptual prehension"). Whitehead describes causal efficacy as "the...

so. On this view, actions are distinguished from other events by their causal history. Causalist theories include Donald Davidson's account, which defines...

naturalism, a non-representational theory of mind that accepts the causal efficacy of mental states. Searle divides intentional states into low-level...

Buddhists, be objectively real (since absences are not caused and have no causal efficacy), this shows that concepts, though referring to a class of particulars...