A philosophical or scientific position that emphasizes causation as the primary explanation for how things work or come to be.
From 'causation' plus the suffix '-ism' (a doctrine or belief system). This is a specialized philosophical term that emerged in 19th-century debates about causality, determinism, and mechanistic explanations of nature.
Causationism is the philosophical belief that everything has a cause—but this creates the 'infinite regress problem' where philosophers ask, 'What caused the cause? And what caused that?'—making it one of the most mind-bending concepts in logic.
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