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While this informal understanding will suffice in everyday use, the [[Philosophy|philosophical]] [[analysis]] of causality has proven difficult. The work of philosophers to understand causality and how best to characterize it extends over millennia. In the western philosophical [[tradition]] explicit [[inquiry|discussion]] stretches back at least as far as [[Aristotle]], and the topic remains a staple in contemporary philosophy journals. Though cause and effect are typically related to events, other candidates include processes, properties, variables, [[fact]]s, and states of affairs; which of these comprise the correct causal relata, and how best to characterize the [[nature]] of the relationship between them, has as yet no [[universal]]ly accepted answer, and remains under discussion.
While this informal understanding will suffice in everyday use, the [[Philosophy|philosophical]] [[analysis]] of causality has proven difficult. The work of philosophers to understand causality and how best to characterize it extends over millennia. In the western philosophical [[tradition]] explicit [[inquiry|discussion]] stretches back at least as far as [[Aristotle]], and the topic remains a staple in contemporary philosophy journals. Though cause and effect are typically related to events, other candidates include processes, properties, variables, [[fact]]s, and states of affairs; which of these comprise the correct causal relata, and how best to characterize the [[nature]] of the relationship between them, has as yet no [[universal]]ly accepted answer, and remains under discussion.
<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Causality''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Causality '''''this link'''''].</center>
According to John F. Sowa (2000),[http://www.jfsowa.com/ontology/causal.htm Processes and Causality] up until the twentieth century, three assumptions described by Max Born in 1949 were dominant in the definition of causality:
According to John F. Sowa (2000),[http://www.jfsowa.com/ontology/causal.htm Processes and Causality] up until the twentieth century, three assumptions described by Max Born in 1949 were dominant in the definition of causality:
