Download or read book The Cement of the Universe written by J. L. Mackie and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1980-09-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies causation both as a concept and as it is 'in the objects.' Offers new accounts of the logic of singular causal statements, the form of causal regularities, the detection of causal relationships, the asymmetry of cause and effect, and necessary connection, and it relates causation to functional and statistical laws and to teleology.