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[Abstract] The commonly accepted view on causation is that it brings something about or makes something happen, such as when a stone smashes a window. But how precisely can we grasp what it is for one thing to cause another? There are a number of views on this problem. Some philosophers think the basis of causation is regularity. Others claim that the existence of the effect depends counterfactually on the existence of the cause. Still others argue that causality is defined in such a way that causes raise the probability of their effects. Although we have seen several attempts to provide such an account, it is still safe to say that none has yet succeeded. One can suspect that there is no univocal analysis of the concept of causation. This research, standing on the pluralism of causations, discusses implications of the causal theories to elucidation of semantic features of linguistic constructions, particularly resultative constructions of Japanese and English. |
