ABSTRACT
In a paper entitled 'Professor Ducasse on Determinism' (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. XXII, No. I, 1961), Professor Richard M. Gale refers to the contention in Chapter 9 of my book, Nature, Mind, and Death, that causation is both universal and uniform. He writes : 'Professor Ducasse develops the thesis that every event of necessity must have a cause from which it follows in a uniform manner. If it can be shown that causality is both uniform and universal, determinism will ipso facto be proven.' Then, referring to my definition of Causality on p. 106 of that book, as 'the relation which obtains between an event C at a time Tz, and another event E at a later time T 2 if C and E are two changes in a given state of affairs Sand are the only two changes in it', Gale writes that 'the crucial question is whether this definition either includes or entails that causality is uniform'; and he then gives the reasons why he would answer that question in the negative.
