西方哲学界历来重视对因果观的研究。亚里士多德就曾说过,一切科学都是研究因果关系的。自从体谟以来,西方的传统因果概念发生了一个巨大的转变。科学放弃了研究事物发生的内在原因的努力,而满足于描述现象之间的规律性的联系,也就是休谟所说的“恒常的连续(constant conjunction)”。任何无法还原为经验现象描述的所谓事物的 Western philosophy has always attached importance to the study of the concept of causality. Aristotle once said that all science is about causation. Since the beginning of the “Mo mo”, the traditional concept of causation in the West has undergone a tremendous change. Science has given up its efforts to study the underlying causes of things, while contentment to describe the regular connections between phenomena is Hume’s “constant conjunction.” Anything that can not be reduced to the description of empirical phenomena