The logical positivist interpretation is that Hume analyses causal propositions, such as " A caused B ", in terms of regularities in perception: " A caused B " is equivalent to " Whenever A-type events happen, B-type ones follow ", where " whenever " refers to all possible perceptions.

This focus on meta-ethics was in part caused by an intense linguistic focus in analytic philosophy and by the popularity of logical positivism.

Scientists have taken the logical step of trying to introduce genes directly into human cells, focusing on diseases caused by single-gene defects, such as cystic fibrosis, haemophilia, muscular dystrophy and sickle cell anemia.

Because Hyrum was Joseph's logical successor, their deaths caused a succession crisis, and Brigham Young assumed leadership over the majority of Saints.

Peter Kugler and Peter Bernholz, University of Basel, 2007 ( Demonstrates that it was the increased supply of precious metals that caused it and notes the obvious logical flaws in the contrary arguments that have become fashionable in recent decades )

Post hoc ergo propter hoc, Latin for " after this, therefore because of this ", is a logical fallacy ( of the questionable cause variety ) that states " Since that event followed this one, that event must have been caused by this one.

is Alkotmányvédelmi Hivatal ( AH ) ( Constitution-protection Office ), which caused a slight controversy since the logical shorthand (" AVH ") would have been the same as the well known, feared communist state police of the 50s, the Államvédelmi Hatóság.

E. R. Punshon reviewed the novel in the February 6, 1936 issue of The Guardian when he said, " Some readers are drawn to the detective novel by the sheer interest of watching and perhaps anticipating the logical development of a given theme, others take their pleasure in following the swift succession of events in an exciting story, and yet others find themselves chiefly interested in the psychological reactions caused by crime impinging upon the routine of ordinary life.

The code word " Lucy " was chosen both in reference to the mini-sun Lucifer and to an article in the journal Nature in 1981 hypothesizing that the cores of Uranus and Neptune were in fact diamonds the size of Earth ( caused by the compression of carbon ), with the hypothesis making a logical extension to Jupiter.

A competing theory is that the release of Openoffice caused Microsoft to become more aggressive about protecting their Microsoft Office franchise and focus on providing limited versions Microsoft Office that consumers would find logical to upgrade to a version of Microsoft Office with more programs included.

But he felt it was a logical possibility and it caused him a great deal of consternation.

Dr Grenader, however, puts forth a more logical explanation and explains her belief that Eric can fly may be due to stress caused by the death of her father as he died from cancer.

Some Christians thought that Hypatia's influence had caused Orestes, the Praefectus augustalis of the Byzantine Diocese of Egypt | Diocese of Egypt, to reject all reconciliatory offerings by Cyril.

Several Christians thought that Hypatia's influence had caused Orestes to reject all reconciliatory offerings by Cyril.

He sent forces to Egypt under the command of Louis I, Duke of Bavaria, but constant expectation of his arrival caused papal legate Pelagius to reject Ayyubid sultan Al-Kamil's offer to restore the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem to the crusaders in exchange for their withdrawal from Egypt and caused the Crusade to continually stall in anticipation of his ever-delayed arrival.

These were some of the main factors that caused many U. S. churches to largely reject the movement and these artists at the time.

His kindness, and a childhood friendship with a Creek boy, caused Brown to reject the portrayals of Indian peoples as violent and backward, which dominated American popular culture at the time.

The many problems with Livy's account and Diodorus ' failure to mention it has even caused some historians to reject the entire war as unhistorical.

His experience working as a federal government intern during the summer of 1960 caused him to reject Marxian economics in favor of free market economic theory.

" He later suspects that Ophelia's rejection of Hamlet's attention has caused the prince to lose his wits, and informs Gertrude and Claudius of his suspicion, claiming that his reason for commanding Ophelia to reject Hamlet was that the prince was above her station.

This apparent revelation and absorbing Gambit's own guilty memories caused Rogue to reject him.

Her tendency, however, to reject roles that could have vitally helped her career in later years caused Alexander Woollcott to declare "... she was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers ".

He received 75 college scholarship offers, although he applied to only five schools and only scored a 485 out of 800 on the Verbal portion of the SAT, which — despite being likely in the top third of all test takers that year — normally would have caused selective schools like Princeton University to reject him.

A single deity associated with a single exclusive existing faith or sect would either have to have caused adherents to other faiths to have visionary or miraculous experiences which lead them to continue to reject the ' true ' faith, or at least allowed some other agency to cause these same effects.

However, after marrying young and becoming a mother, she found herself living the same bourgeois lifestyle that she had attempted to reject ; the internal conflict caused her to suffer a nervous breakdown.

However, when his attempt to reject his destiny results in him killing Kang, the resulting destruction caused by the changes in history forces Iron Lad to return to his time and undo the damage by becoming Kang.

( My Days and Dreams p. 64 ) Reading Whitman caused Carpenter to reject a life spent in a comfortable clerical post and instead he wished to dedicate himself to life helping the working-class gain the right to education.

Krupp would later reject Haussner's invention, due to insoluble technical problems caused by hydraulic fluid leakage.

Others reject the view that the image experience may be identical with ( or directly caused by ) any such representation in the mind or the brain, but do not take account of the non-representational forms of imagery.

The opposition by Christian Voice caused the cancer charity Maggie's Centres to reject a £ 3, 000 donation from Jerry Springer: The Opera.

He served from 1866 to 1867, but his moderate views on African-American suffrage and his endorsement of President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policy caused the Ohio Republicans to reject him for renomination.

While the computer system never generated an impact prediction, the large amount of data caused enough concern that the equipment was subsequently modified to reject moon returns based on their long ( 2. 5 second ) delay.

Rochlitz's Jewish ancestry caused embarrassment to Al Tajir, and later caused Rochlitz to reject Al-Fayed's offer of a formal partnership.

In this adaptation he is a warrior-like sorcerer who began to think only about victory instead of why they battled, willing to go as far as killing innocent children, which was against all the Ancient One stood for ; this caused the Ancient One to reject his attempt to be Sorcerer Supreme.

Stevie had heard these words many times, yet on each occasion they caused him to tremble.

The old nightmare which had caused him so many wakeful hours came charging in on him once more, only this time he couldn't pacify it with a sleeping pill and send it away.

These incidents, typical of many others, dramatize the distressing fact that no controversy during the last several decades has caused more tension, rancor and strife among religious groups in this country than the birth-control issue.

Scarcity of paper caused many Southerners to adopt the practice of cross-writing, i.e., after writing from left to right of the page in the usual manner, they gave the sheet a half turn and wrote from end to end across the lines previously written.

In its early years, there were many variants of the Greek alphabet, a situation which caused many different alphabets to evolve from it.

The controversy had caused many parents to remove their children and, as the school closed, Alcott became increasingly financially desperate.

He investigated its positive anti-bacterial effect on many organisms, and noticed that it affected bacteria such as staphylococci and many other Gram-positive pathogens that cause scarlet fever, pneumonia, meningitis and diphtheria, but not typhoid fever or paratyphoid fever, which are caused by Gram-negative bacteria, for which he was seeking a cure at the time.

As early American Indians lacked the proper pottery that could be used directly over a fire, they developed a technique which has caused many anthropologists to call them " Stone Boilers ".

However, until the Revolution, many considered whiskey to be a coarse alcohol unfit for human consumption, as many believed that it caused the poor to become raucous and unkempt drunkards.

For example, antihistamines including orphenadrine combat the release of histamine caused by many opioids.

Furthermore, the persistent nature of dioxins, erosion caused by loss of protective tree cover, and loss of seeding forest stock, meant reforestation was difficult or impossible in many areas.

This was likely because al-Andalus was a land besieged by many different loyalties, and the proclamation of caliph would have likely caused much unrest.

Finally, dropping prices of home computers like the Commodore 64 had caused many to believe that buying a home computer was a better investment because it provided more detailed gameplay and could be used for other purposes such as word processing.

In the past, factories had short funnels to let out smoke but this caused many problems locally ; thus, factories now have taller smoke funnels.

The introduction for the vocal part of the symphony caused many difficulties for Beethoven.

* Jorge Luis Borges, who suffered from a congenital condition that caused him to become blind by middle age, discussed his condition in many autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works.

According to many critics, such an unusual division of labor caused serious command and control problems.

This unwanted side-effect has caused many common volatile brominated organics like methyl bromide, a pesticide that was formerly a large industrial bromine consumer, to be abandoned.

Pascal's results caused many disputes before being accepted.

Even if one ignores exceptions caused by some kind of injury or illness, there are many unclear cases, including the fact that " normal " humans can crawl on hands and knees.

Such influence has caused Aramaic to have many Persian loanwords that can be seen in later historical texts.

* Why many versioning problems are caused by backwards compatibility issues.