> the principle that there is more reality in a cause than in its effect
What a weird idea. Why would that be?
Not that I am well-versed in this, but it seems this is the cause-effect equivalent of the whole containing the part and not the other way around (or something greater can contain something smaller, but not conversely.)
Not that I am well-versed in this, but it seems this is the cause-effect equivalent of the whole containing the part and not the other way around (or something greater can contain something smaller, but not conversely.)