Causality, determinism and predictability, as well as their respective antipodean non-causality, indeterminism and unpredictability constitute recurrent concepts for both scientific and philosophical communities. The distinction between causality and determinism is not a simple matter. Frequently these conceptual categories give rise to misunderstandings. In fact, these categories are not simply reduced to mere capacity to predict. We argue that several of these formulations are not suitable in order to understand these concepts. Finally we argue that the concept of cause is the most important.
causality; (in)determinism; (un)predictability
