Can anyone help with making an understanding of the following quote, involving CAUSALITY.
* In historical terms, every event has a cause, and is itself the cause of following events, which may therefore be considered its effect(s), or consequences.
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This is the strict theory of causality.
The idea is that things remain the same unless acted upon. The classic physics “A body in motion will remain in motion and a body at rest will remain at rest, unless they are acted upon by some force.”
There are problems with this theory, the decay of a radioactive atom is inconsistent with it, even though this is observed in experiments.
Perhaps if you described what aspect of the theory you’re having trouble understanding.
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