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causality comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has definition	has synonym
doctrine	belief
causality	doctrine	The doctrine that every new situation must have resulted from a previous state. Causation underlay the original atomic hypothesis of the Greeks, and was popular in classical physics. It is eroded in quantum mechanics and has, in any case, never been proved essential to the scientific world view. See chance, determinism.	causation

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