On the Problem of a Unified Physical Theory of Matter

In the following, limiting ourselves to two objects—the processes X and Y —we will compare three kinds of regularities in their specific manifestation in physics: (1) interaction; (2) causality; and (3) functional dependence. In considering as objective all the regularities which are inherent in things and material processes themselves, and in considering causality and functional dependence merely as one-sided abstractions of interaction, which in its turn is an abstraction from the universal interconnection of things, we avoid such an arbitrary definition of causality as, for instance, the possibility of exact prognosis which leads to the negation of causality. We also avoid placing functional dependence above causality

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