...empirical generalization from a number of laws which are themselves empirical generalizations. (2) The law makes no difference between past and future: the future...of variables 'determine' another variable if that other variable is a function of them. (3) The law will not be empirically verifiable unless the course...

...which we can infer events at any time from events at certain assigned times. The word 'deterministic' has a purely logical significance : a certain number of variables determine another variable if that other variable is a function of them. The law of universal causation may be enunciated as follows:...

...Carnap is perfectly in line with Russell's understanding of 'causality': "The word 'determine'... has purely logical significance: a certain number of variables...variable if that variable is a function of them."* For Carnap 'causality' in physics means that in the physical world there are determining laws such...

...the definition of cause and effect. The first argument is based on the following observation: The law makes no difference between past and future: the future...the same sense in which the past "determines" the future.5 This statement of Russell, however, is valid only in classical physics applied to microscopic...

...empirical generalisation from a number of laws which are themselves empirical generalisations. (2i The law makes no difference between past and future: the future..."determines" the future. The word "determine," here, has a pnrelv logical significance: a certain number of variables "determine" another variable if that other...