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Causality is, as often said, not a law but the form of a law; a discourse used to bring some understanding to a chaotic world. In that discourse the two words ‘cause’ (C) and ‘effect’ (E) are subject to rules of speech: E cannot precede C in time. And the connective relating them, an arrow, like C --> E, translated as ‘C causes/leads to/is followed by E’, or some synonyms, is two-way.
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This text was first presented at: Gipri, Ecole d'été: Les causes des guerres à venir, Geneva 31 August 2007 and at the University of Basel, Institute of Sociology, as “Öffnung: Krieg Aethiologie Abschaffung” on 12 September 2007.
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Galtung, J., Fischer, D. (2013). On the Causes of War and Its Abolition. In: Johan Galtung. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32481-9_12
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