| 单词 | regularity theory |
| 释义 | > as lemmasregularity theory regularity theory n. (in full regularity theory of causation) Philosophy any of various theories which analyse the nature of the relation between cause and effect in terms of regular empirical sequences of events of particular types.Particularly associated with the work of David Hume (1711–76), the theory in its most basic form argues that the mind comes to perceive one event as causing another through constantly repeated experiences in which events of the first kind are followed by events of the second. ΚΠ 1925 C. D. Broad Mind & its Place x. 457 The two conditions..are not jointly sufficient..to cause a memory even on the most extreme form of the regularity-theory of causation. 1951 A. C. Ewing Fund. Questions Philos. (1968) viii. 162 All this should make one hesitate very much before accepting the regularity theory merely because it is the simplest and keeps closest to what is empirically observed. 1982 D. N. Robinson Towards Sci. of Human Nature iv. 141 Humean self is part of the Humean natural order and is completely blanketed by Hume's regularity theory of causation. 2005 Sociol. Methodology 35 103 Regularity theories are one attempt to explicate the nature of causation. < as lemmas |
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