An idea from Critique of Pure Reason

Walk around a house and your views come in any order you like. Watch a ship drift downstream and they come in only one order. A rule of cause fixes that order and makes it an event. Quantum physics has since put that strict rule in doubt.

From Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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