Causation A Human Creation - 530 Words

Causation is not something often taken into consideration as it seems to be an innate process, trying to determine the reason behind something occurring. What is causation, though? It is the relation of cause and effect between two temporally simultaneous events when the first event brings about the other, but how is cause determined? Is it not just constant conjunction, where cause is determined by the previous action? What is causation has plagued many, not just philosophers but those in other professions, the judicial system and scientific community especially. Many from the general populous would refute a claim that there is no such thing as causation, but if countered with the question how does one determine cause then silence would be par for course. The problem with the common perception of causation is that everyone has grown up thinking about cause and effect. If I do this what will be the result? This is something parent and teachers encourage young children to do but this builds in the idea that an action has a predictable and replicable result. Is this always the case? David Hume discusses the idea that we, as human beings, do not observe causation, and that an individual’s perception of causation is built upon past experience and only creates a correlation between events. There are many examples of the correlation which Hume speaks of including the following; a ball hits a window. The window breaks. Therefore the ball broke the window. These events correlateShow MoreRelatedThe Influence and Accomplishments of Thomas Aquinas and G.W. Leibnizs750 Words   |  3 Pagestheorizes that creation is not complete even once some â€Å"thing† has been created completely. He argues that creation is an ongoing process and depends on God for every moment it continues. He elaborates on this by describing God as creation itself, and not necessarily as a formed entity. 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