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Causality, Effectiveness, Determinism
Daniil V. Pivovarov, Daniil V. Pivovarov
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Abstract
The author describes his conception of the relationship of such philosophical concepts as causality,\neffectiveness and determinism. The notions of material causality and teleonomic causality are\ncompared. The study shows the difference between the doctrines of monocausalism and conditionalism.\nCausality is interpreted as a special case of effectiveness, and effectiveness is defined as the essential\nattitude of changes on an output of nonequilibrium system to changes on its input. The principle of\ndeterminism is specified and expanded. The author’s analysis proves that the principle of determinism\nmust not be reduced to the idea of causality
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