METAPHYSICAL IDEAS OF G.E.M. ANSCOMBE

Abstract

The text examines the views of E. Anscombe on the nature of causation. According to the author, the idea of neces-sity should be kept behindthe explanations, but no reference to necessity should be made in relation to the con-nection of events itself. Then certainty will be used in two different contexts: as a characteristic of explanatory judgments (then it is identical with necessity) and as a characteristic of reality (then it has nothing to do with necessity).