ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the fluctuation of determinism and indeterminism, the great contrast between the causal conception of the eighteenth century and that of the end of the nineteenth was pointed out. With the change of the type of culture but a deep transformation of their meaning is experienced also by the basic categories of human thought such as time, space, number, causality, that are indispensable for any cognition of any phenomena. First principle of causality that everything has a cause or reason is acceptable to both the Ideational and Sensate mentality. Contrary to the prevalent opinion, the terms Time, Space, Number, Causation, and their derivatives, do not have the same meaning in different cultures. The "time" of the Ideational mentality is profoundly different from that of the Sensate; though Ideational and Sensate time both belong to the Category of Time. The same is true of Ideational and Sensate space, number, causality, and several other categories.
