Re: Causality vs Entailment

[James N Rose <***>]

Judith,

Would it be correct to phrase it that entailment is any 
linked or bound synchronicity of existence/behavior, where
conventional causal linkages may be present but aren't 
required?

Therefore, the chicken-egg question is an entailed
system, even 'causality' is present but not uniquely
determinable when traditional reductionism is attempted. 

Jamie


> Judith Rosen wrote:
> 
> Tim Gwinn wrote: one cannot reliably argue backwards from behavior (effects) to
> causes.[EL p. 123] The former does not entail the latter.
> Tim you're getting into quicksand, here. My father did not say this the way you
> are representing it. All of science argues backwards from effects to causes. The
> problem is that such an argument is a linear expression and a linear view. That
> is precisely what limits "causality" as a subject for study. The underlying
> entailment relations don't follow this linear, timebound form and are,
> therefore, more comprehensive.
> 
> Judith