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Causality in Field Physics in its Bearing upon Biological Causation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

F. S. C. Northrop
F. S. C. Northrop*
Affiliation:
Yale University
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Extract

The concept of causality as it appears in a specific scientific theory involves two factors: (1) the relation of necessary connection between the states of a system at different times, and (2) the definition of state at a given time.

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Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , April 1938 , pp. 166 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1938

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Footnotes

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A paper read in the symposium on Causality in Physics at the meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association at Princeton University on December 29, 1937.

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