Abstract
What separates recent from classical physics arose from the transformation of a series of basic physical concepts. Above all, the concepts of space and time on one hand and causality on the other were subjected to a critique that led to their being redefined. While, however, the reconstruction of spatio-temporal concepts, following the preparatory work in mathematics and in the philosophy of Mach and Poincare, succeeded in physics at a stroke as it were, the case there stands otherwise as regards the concept of causality. Physics did indeed at length succeed in indicating very precisely what are the limits beyond which we can no longer speak of causality in a non-tautological sense, but in spite of this very important result for physics, people continue to differ as to what is to be understood by causality and the causal principle.
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