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My colleague, Richard N. Bosley has written profoundly on fallacies in Greek, Medieval, and later philosophy. I thank both him and Martin Tweedale for explaining their views. Bosley's first Fallacy of Atomisn runs: “To be distinct is (necessarily) to be independent and separate.”
David Hume: (1)A Treatise of Human Nature (London, 1739–1740);Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (London, 1748);Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (London, 1779).
“[Debased] EFFICIENT Causality”: Paradigmatically X (anevent, process, change, agent etc.) brings about, contributes to bringing about, etc., Y in such a way that there is a causal tie of necessary connection or being a causally necessary condition between X and the distinct/separateevent (etc.) V.“EMANATING” Causality: Y is a necessarily involved mode, process, etc., in the continuous emanating of X by X. There is no separation between X and Y.
John Scotus Eriugena,Periphyseon/Division of Nature. Edited and translated by John P. O'Meara and I.P. Sheldon-Williams. (Montreal and Washington: Bellarmin and Dumbarton Oaks, 1987).
Consider these three examples. (i) “The downpouring water of very dusty rain makes muddy puddles in the roads' numerous shallow holes.” (ii) “The rain makes puddles of muddy water in the roads' very dusty holes.” (iii) “The very dusty, heavily falling, rising water of the tropical rain makes the roads' very dusty and shallow holes soon overflow with the muddy water of tropical rain puddles.”
J.L. Austin,How to Do Things with Words (Oxford: Blackwell, 1962).
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King-Farlow, J. Emanating causes: New battle lines for Natural Theology?. SOPH 29, 2–9 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02789877
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