If a future event E is necessary, it is causable, and not E is not causable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

The proposition that I build a building (a small one, with help) is causable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

The actual past is not causable, but alternative pasts are not causable either.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

The modes I am suggesting divide events into the causable and the non-causable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

There is a temporal asymmetry in causability because everything causable is in the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

There is a set of propositions p which are such that p is not causable and not-p is not causable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

There may also be a set of propositions p which are such that p is causable and not-p is causable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

So the necessity of the past is the principle that past events are outside the class of causable events.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

The modes of causable and not causable do not correspond to the standard modes of necessary, possible, impossible, and contingent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

Consider next what happens if we alter the so-called necessity of the past to express the metaphysical principle that the past is not causable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

Citizens should therefore stay alert and recognize the potential benefits and harms causable by any criminal actor or organization, and act to maximize goodness both in the short– and long-term.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Calling the Police as Negligence:] Reference

Another disanalogy between necessity and non-causability is that if p is necessary, p is possible, but if p is not causable, there is no category parallel to the possible that applies to p. The realm of standard modality is divided into the possible and the impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

(2a) If E is an event in the past, E is not now causable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

The muscular motions that are generally subservient to volition, are also occasionally causable by irritation, as in stretching the limbs after sleep, and yawning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Many of the motions of our organs of sense, or ideas, that were originally excited into action by irritation, become in like manner more frequently causable by our sensations of pleasure or pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Many of the motions of our muscles, that are excited into action by irritation, are at the same time accompanied with painful or pleasurable sensations; and at length become by habit causable by the sensations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

For this purpose he continues to repeat the first syllable, which is causable by volition, and strives in vain, by various distortions of countenance, to produce the next links, which are subject to association.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

No skyscraper before or since, anywhere in the world, has ever come down as the result of the maximum heat causable by a fire, even if that fire is fuelled by carpeting, paper, plastic furniture and jet fuel and fanned by the strongest winds.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

But as the efforts of the will frequently accompanied these painful or pleasureable sensations, by habit the fibrous contractions became causable by volition; and both the irritations and sensations ceased to be necessary to their production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

But as many of these fibrous contractions frequently accompanied other fibrous contractions, by habit they became causable by their associations with them; and the irritations, sensations, and volition, ceased to be necessary to their production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

The muscular motions above described, that are most frequently obedient to the will are nevertheless occasionally causable by painful or pleasurable sensation, as in the starting from fear, and the contraction of the calf of the leg in the cramp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

On this circumstance depends the impediment of speech before mentioned; the first syllable of a word is causable by volition, but the remainder of it is in common conversation introduced by its associations with this first syllable acquired by long habit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

As there are many diseases produced by the quantity of the sensation of pain or pleasure being too great or too little; so are there diseases produced by the susceptibility of the constitution to motions causable by these sensations being too dull or too vivid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

The motions of those muscles, which are affected by lascivious ideas, and those which are exerted in smiling, weeping, starting from fear, and winking at the approach of danger to the eye, and at times the actions of every large muscle of the body become causable by our sensations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

These motions are gradually formed into a habit of acting together by a multitude of repetitions, whilst they are yet separately causable by the will, as is evident from the long time that is taken up by children in learning to walk and to speak; and is experienced by every one, when he first attempts to skate upon the ice or to swim: these we shall term voluntary associations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

P about the past is not causable, not-p is also not causable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

P which are such that p is causable and not-p is not causable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

But some of the future is non-causable as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

(5a) If p is not now causable and necessarily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

Q is not causable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

P is not causable but q is causable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

(p †’ q), then q is not now causable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

(5b) If p is not causable, necessarily (p.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference