FIRST CAUSE AND EFFECT
'Cause and effect' is an idiom that summarizes, elides its constituent co-elements. It glides over them, as though they were not, when in truth, they are critical components, without which the idiom can not be.
Cause, for example, like effect, are each products of what lies below, of that which precedes their being.
Take fire, for example.
A lit match applied to dry paper indoors makes fire. Of course, a match is of more recent invention than paper which dates back eons. Both match & paper are caused by human "invention." So too may be an indoors space where fire was lit.
So human interaction is implicit in the idiom known as cause & effect. Human interaction is a very critical component of anything it touches.
Of course human interaction itself rests upon incalculable precedents, going way back to the origination of mankind, whose origins nobody knows, but that many speculate on.
The very same origination issues pertaining to man may be said for each chemical that went into the match's or the paper's make-up, including processes of production.
Going all the way back one might say that cause and effect are just illusions, as everything is ordained by God. Or one might say "not so!"
Whatsoever one might say, we are all on this revolving, rotating planet, orbiting around our remote sun, in the air, with trillions of other suns, and their intergalactic coteries, yet do not know first cause nor effect !
If we do not know the first cause or effect, how can we know the later?
'Cause and effect' is an idiom that summarizes, elides its constituent co-elements. It glides over them, as though they were not, when in truth, they are critical components, without which the idiom can not be.
Cause, for example, like effect, are each products of what lies below, of that which precedes their being.
Take fire, for example.
A lit match applied to dry paper indoors makes fire. Of course, a match is of more recent invention than paper which dates back eons. Both match & paper are caused by human "invention." So too may be an indoors space where fire was lit.
So human interaction is implicit in the idiom known as cause & effect. Human interaction is a very critical component of anything it touches.
Of course human interaction itself rests upon incalculable precedents, going way back to the origination of mankind, whose origins nobody knows, but that many speculate on.
The very same origination issues pertaining to man may be said for each chemical that went into the match's or the paper's make-up, including processes of production.
Going all the way back one might say that cause and effect are just illusions, as everything is ordained by God. Or one might say "not so!"
Whatsoever one might say, we are all on this revolving, rotating planet, orbiting around our remote sun, in the air, with trillions of other suns, and their intergalactic coteries, yet do not know first cause nor effect !
If we do not know the first cause or effect, how can we know the later?