Created, Changeable, and Yet Acausal?

Q1 Arts and Humanities
Vanessa Carr
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Abstract

Amongst the entities that have been created by human agents, and can be changed by human agents, besides concrete particulars, such as tables and chairs, our intuitions suggest that there are repeatables—entities that can each have multiple concrete instances. And since there is reason to think that repeatables are acausal, there is reason to think that that there are entities that are created, changeable, repeatable and acausal. Then again, it might be supposed that if an entity is created then it is causal, and that if an entity is changed then it is causal. It is argued here that these suppositions are insufficiently motivated to undermine the case for the existence of entities that are created, changeable, repeatable and acausal.
创造,改变,还是随意的?
在由人类智能体创建并可以被人类智能体改变的实体中,除了具体的细节,比如桌子和椅子,我们的直觉表明存在可重复的实体——每个实体都可以有多个具体实例。既然我们有理由认为可重复性是因果性的,我们就有理由认为存在被创造的,可改变的,可重复性的和因果性的实体。然后,我们可以假设,如果一个实体被创造,那么它就是因果关系,如果一个实体被改变,那么它就是因果关系。这里的论点是,这些假设的动机不足以破坏被创造的、可改变的、可重复的和无因果的实体存在的理由。
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Proceedings of the Aristotelean Society
Proceedings of the Aristotelean Society Arts and Humanities-Philosophy
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期刊介绍: The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society contains the papers read at the Society"s fortnightly meetings in London throughout the academic year, and short discussion notes on these papers. Papers are drawn from an international base of contributors and discuss issues across a broad range of philosophical traditions, including those which are of greatest current interest.
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