noncausal
IPA: nɑnkˈɔzʌɫ
adjective
- Not causal.
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Examples of "noncausal" in Sentences
- A common objection is that noncausal accounts fail to meet this requirement.
- Proponents of noncausal accounts generally hold that each intentional action is or begins with a basic mental action.
- Simultaneous by nature – noncausal bidirectional correlation, e.g, double and half, coordinate species of the same genus
- Since any such account imposes no positive causal requirement on free action, we may call views of this type "noncausal."
- Again, it is often objected that noncausal theories of action and free will cannot provide an adequate account of this phenomenon.
- Two main problems arise for noncausal accounts of free will; both are problems, in the first instance, for noncausal accounts of intentional action.
- However, since the noncausal views examined here place no positive requirements on free action beyond those that are placed on action, if they fail as adequate accounts of action, then
- As is characteristic of proponents of noncausal accounts, neither Ginet nor McCann places any additional positive requirements on free action; the further requirements are instead that certain conditions be absent.
- Proponents of noncausal theories generally go for one or another of two alternatives, appealing either to the content of an intention that the agent is said to have concurrently with performing the action in question, or to the intentional content of the action itself.
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