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Are These Statements True?

Every effect must have a cause.

That effect is dependent upon its cause for its existence.

If that which doesn't exist can be a cause, then nothing can produce everything.

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  • 2 decades ago
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    YES-cause is x-axis then effeect is y-axis.Effect is measurement of cause.

    YES-without cause there can not be any effect,what will one measure if there is nothing to change or cause to change.

    NO-Cause must be an existing reality. The logic is implied.In mathematics,if an equation is true the you can also prove the equation by starting that the statement is not true.If you get negative result then your initial presuption was wrong,which makes equation valid.Everything is produced is a fact then this is real test of the existence of cause to produce.

    Sounds metaphysical.keep it up,Babe!

  • 2 decades ago

    You're whole question here is based off of pre-detminationism....contrary to popular belief of free will. I would have to agree with these statements above.

    Determinism versus indeterminism

    Determinism holds that each state of affairs is entirely necessitated (determined) by the states of affairs that preceded it, an extension of cause and effect, as well as the laws of nature that govern it. Indeterminism holds this proposition to be incorrect, and that there are events which are not entirely determined by previous states of affairs. The idea of determinism is sometimes illustrated by the story of Laplace's demon, who knows all the facts about the past and present and all the natural laws that govern our world, and uses this knowledge to foresee the future, down to every detail.

    Some philosophers hold that determinism is at odds with free will. This is the doctrine of incompatibilism. Incompatibilists generally claim that a person acts freely (has free will) only in cases where the person is the sole originating cause of the act and the person genuinely could have done otherwise. This kind of free will is (allegedly) incompatible with determinism since, if determinism is true and all states of affairs are fully determined by the past (including events that preceded our births), then every choice we make would ultimately be determined by prior events that were not under our control. In the case that the past conditions (but does not determine) our potential responses, this creates problems with the stipulation that the agent be the sole originating cause of the free act. Our choices would be just one outcome amongst multiple possibilities, all of which are ultimate determined by the past; even if the agent arguably exerts the will freely in choosing amongst the available options, they are not the sole originating cause of the action.

    "Hard determinists", such as d'Holbach, are those incompatibilists who accept determinism and reject free will. "Libertarians", such as Thomas Reid, Peter van Inwagen, and Robert Kane are those incompatibilists who accept free will, deny determinism, and instead believe that indeterminism is true. (This kind of libertarianism should not be confused with the political position of the same name, and is thus sometimes known as voluntarism for this very reason.

  • 2 decades ago

    Every effect has a cause, but some causes have multiple effects.

    One cause can have 2 or more effects, those can have more, etc...

    It means that everything started from ONE cause.

  • 2 decades ago

    dunno

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