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(philosophy) The doctrine that actions have a direct cause, especially that people's actions are caused by their mental state at the time..
11 Since Donald Davidson’s “Actions, Reasons, and Causes” ( 1963 ), causalism about action explanations has been widely accepted (and perennially contested).
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Causalism means (philosophy) The doctrine that actions have a direct cause, especially that people's actions are caused by their mental state at the time..
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11 Since Donald Davidson’s “Actions, Reasons, and Causes” ( 1963 ), causalism about action explanations has been widely accepted (and perennially contested).
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