{Meaning (and Causes)}[8th September 1988]

[Redbook5:346-348][19880908:1215]{Meaning (and Causes)}[8th September 1988]

19880908.1215

Many times, far too many for the chain of events to be coincidental, [W] and I have exchanged moods. A feels depressed, B feels content. A tells B about A’s depression. A feels content, B feels depressed. It is quite perverse in this case to argue that the moods are caused by any chemical changes associated with them, in any appropriate* sense.

To digress on causes: we can distinguish at least 4 different classes of cause:

	(	(1) ↓	Ultimate, First or Final Cause))
These 3 categories are defined according to our area or field of interest, whose causes are the Appropriate Causes.	/ – \	(2) ↓ (3) ↓ (4)	Distant Causes Appropriate Causes Immediate Causes
	(	↓ (5)	Result)

*This is not quite the word I want. [‘Relevant’ and ‘meaningful’ were both tried and struck through, in that order, before ‘appropriate’ was inserted in the ms.]

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