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Ludwik Kowalski

Posted: 21 June 2012 02:47 PM

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Some of you might be interested in my very short article about causality.

http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/theo/cause3.html

Please share this link with other potential readers. Thank you in advance,

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Posted: 21 June 2012 03:10 PM

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An interesting offshoot of this is that the question, “Why?” can refer to objective causality but can also apply to motivation.

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Ludwik Kowalski

Posted: 21 June 2012 03:19 PM

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Occam. - 21 June 2012 03:10 PM
An interesting offshoot of this is that the question, “Why?” can refer to objective causality but can also apply to motivation.

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Yes indeed. The meaning is usually clear from the context. Otherwise it should be defined to avoid confusion.

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http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/life/intro.html

It is an autobiography based on a diary kept between 1946 and 2004 (in the USSR, Poland, France and the USA).

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Ludwik Kowalski

Posted: 26 June 2012 02:49 PM

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Ludwik Kowalski - 21 June 2012 02:47 PM
Some of you might be interested in my very short article about causality.

http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/theo/cause3.html

Please share this link with other potential readers. Thank you in advance,

Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia)

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Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia), a retired nuclear physicist from New Jersey, USA. A am also the author of a FREE ONLINE book: “Diary of a Former Communist: Thoughts, Feelings, Reality.”

http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/life/intro.html

It is an autobiography based on a diary kept between 1946 and 2004 (in the USSR, Poland, France and the USA).

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