there’s a type of causation I’ve been thinking about lately from phenomenology (“Fundierung”) that’s about things as conditions of possibility, “letting” rather than “forcing”
the two I’m working from now are Rota (from Indiscrete Thoughts and his 1998 lectures) - feels like the next horrible word explication essay in the pipeline
I read indiscrete thoughts back in the day but I don’t recall this at all... it was mostly math anecdotes iirc? Was this a big part or mentioned in passing?