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JR:Yes: All entailments in the external world ARE
"causal" entailments--All entailments which exist in formalisms are
"inferential" entailments.
TG: Ok, we are in
agreement here.
JR:"Causality" refers to the partial _expression_ of
entailments in the external world. As such, all causality is a temporally bound,
limited manifestation of the underlying entailment
relations.
TG: This is where
we disagree, and maybe it is a linguistic difference. In my view, the term
'causality' encompasses all causal entailments, not some partial
_expression_ of them. Indeed, the "underlying entailment relations" are still
causal entailments and thus are part of 'causality'. I read RR's work as using
the term 'causality' that way.
Regards,
Tim
Tim, you are still not seeing what I'm trying to show you. This
is so important, I've got to keep trying.
Tim Gwinn
wrote: I see no passages in his writing to indicate that either 1) ?causality?
refers only to ?what happens?, or 2) that there are entailments in the
external world which are not causal entailments.
Yes: All entailments in the external world ARE "causal"
entailments--All entailments which exist in formalisms are "inferential"
entailments.
There is one small caveat: It should not be
inferred that models exist only in the human "formal world" of science.
Anticipatory Systems Theory postulates the natural existence of models as part
of the organization of all living systems; models which are used by the
systems, themselves, for the purposes of system guidance/control through
time. However, even there, the entailment in the models would
be "inferential entailment".
"Causality" refers to the partial _expression_ of entailments in
the external world. As such, all causality is a temporally bound,
limited manifestation of the underlying entailment
relations.
Have you ever heard the _expression_; "You find out what someone is
really like in a crisis."? This is because a crisis will demonstrate more of
the underlying entailments than ordinary circumstances will. The
manifestations, or observables, are "causality". But the entailments were
there, all along. They specify what the causality will be. As such, the
entailed potential of a living system is always greater than the causal
_expression_ or manifestation in terms of observable behavior through time.
Judith
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