cause and effect

asteroid

time travel

making a difference

butterfly effect

is problematic because it is not something we observe, but rather it is something we intuit; it’s statistical.

Kant had accepted Hume’s sabotage of the default Western metaphysical concept that cause and effect were easy to identify mechanical operations happening below appearances in some reliable way. According to this, cause and effect are statistical; you can’t with a straight face say that one billiard ball will always hit another one and “cause” it to move. Kant gives the deep reason for this: cause and effect are on the side of data, appearances rather than part of the thing in itself; they are phenomena that we intuit about a thing based on a priori judgment.

is a matter of appearances rather than part of the thing in itself; they are phenomena that we intuit about a thing based on a priori judgment.

is circular --- Every effect becomes a cause.

cause and effect, n.All

cause and effect