There is therefore no a priori objection to a causal law in which part of the cause has ceased to exist.

The result is that we merely have, as the embodiment of our causal law, a certain direction of change at each moment.

And finally it is by no means certain that the peculiar causal laws which govern mental events are not really physiological.

Thus understanding in this sense may be reduced to mere physiological causal laws.

This way of looking at causal laws is a delicate compromise.

Every blink conforms to the causal laws of this physical movement.

Fate has arbitrary power, and need not follow any causal or otherwise deterministic laws.

On the contrary, some can, and have often been called and regarded as causal laws.

Such laws, although sometimes run together with causal laws, are best regarded as otherwise.

In Greek drama they were beginning, as a society, to discover science, which means causal law.