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During the past few years, the research of the International Center
for Genetic Epistemology has dealt with causality, in its broadest
sense, including every explanation of a material phenomenon, both
the physical aspects of actions and their relationships to objects.
The stages in the development of the understanding of causality
pose much more difficult problems than the study of operations of
the subjects. Because operations essentially show the general
coordinations of the action, the stages of their formulation
conform to an inner logic that analysis sooner or later succeeds in
drawing out, and that is found again with rather striking
regularity in the most diverse fields. Explaining a physical
phenomenon must presume the use of such operations because the
search for causality always ends up in going beyond the observable
and in having recourse to inferred, therefore operational
connections. But, in addition, there are the responses of the
object, which are of critical importance, because to talk of
causality is to presume that objects exist outside of us and that
they act independently of us. If the causal model adopted includes
an inferential part, the explanation of the phenomenon has the sole
purpose of identifying the properties of the object. These
properties can resist as well as yield to the subject s operational
treatment, resulting in the development of explanations that do not
necessarily present the same regularity nor the same relative
simplicity as that of logico-mathematical operations."
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