(October 13, 2021 at 5:46 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Belacqua gave good examples that I will poke into shortly. That said, I would not use the arm/stick/rock as an example of simultaneous cause since mechanical force travels down the stick, in time, as a compression wave.
Yeah, I was just speaking generally... I know that the First Way is the closest one you could relate to normal physical causality as we generally understand it. For instance I've seen it argued that along the lines you've said, there A transfers kinetic energy to B and from then to C, so that every essential ordered series in that case is actually accidental. But since that sort of argument wouldn't apply with the other ways, I didn't see the point in bringing it up... at this point at least.