ABSTRACT
The traditional conception of cause and effect is one which modern science shows to be fundamentally erroneous, and requiring to be replaced by a quite different notion, that of laws of change. In the traditional conception, a particular event A caused a particular event B, and by this it was implied that, given any event B, some earlier event A could be discovered which had a relation to it, such that-
(1) Whenever A occurred, it was followed by B; (2) In this sequence, there was something ‘necessary’, not a mere de facto
occurrence of A first and then B.
