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acausal, a. Chiefly Philos.|eɪˈkɔːzəl|
[a- prefix 14.]
Not causal; independent of or not involving the relationship of cause and effect.
1936[see micro-process s.v. micro- 1]. 1955R. F. C. Hull tr. C. G. Jung (title) Synchronicity: an acausal connecting principle. 1972Koestler Roots of Coincidence iii. 86 Kammerer develops his central idea that coexistent with causality there is an a-causal principle active in the universe, which tends towards unity. 1981Nature 2 Apr. 363/2 Blandford, McKee and Rees reviewed the possibilities for the expansion of extragalactic radio sources... The range of possibilities is large. There are the ‘acausal’ models such as the ‘Christmas tree’ version involving independent sources whose unrelated eruptions mimic expansion.
Hence acauˈsality; aˈcausally adv.
1953Scottish Jrnl. Theol. VI. 374 Physics, it seems, has been forced to become more philosophical by its successive reduction of matter to an indeterminate element, of space and time to relativity, and of mechanical necessity to acausality. 1962J. Jacobi Psychol. C. G. Jung (ed. 6) iii. 63 Jung..has devoted a number of studies to the problem of acausality. 1974Sci. Amer. Jan. 113/2 They are ‘acausally’ related in the Eastern metaphysical sense of being parts of a vast cosmic design that lies beyond the reach of science but is partially accessible to the subconscious mind of the person who casts the sticks. 1975J. Taylor Superminds vi. 105 The absence of any natural limitation on the amount of acausality which could be achieved. |