Placing these in causal sequence, psychosophy can be viewed as:
As we interact with the environment, we have a strong tendency to interpret event sequences as causal sequences.
It also completely removes the ability to extrapolate a causal sequence from the works.
In general, many such causal sequences contribute to any event, including human decisions.
Without attempting a characterization of such sequences, let us suppose that a link k occurred in a causal sequence connecting cc with e.
These psychoneural pairs, as Honderich calls them, are just effects of certain causal sequences, and are causes of our actions.
Indeed, many economists believe that the true causal sequence between consumer attitudes andobjective economic conditions is the reverse of what the psychological approach assumes.
Objection: Ideas appear in a causal sequence.
If ideas are mere superficial appearances without internal parts, what is the purpose of the complicated causal sequence in which they appear?
In order to represent causal sequences, "sufficient condition" and "necessary & sufficient conditions" are also required.