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<li class='division'>Points of Controversy</li>
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<h1>11.7 Of the Causality of Things</h1>
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<p><span class='add'>Controverted Point</span>: That a cause of things is predetermined.</p>
<p><span class='add'>Theravādin:</span> <a class='ref pts-cs' id='pts-cs11.7.1' href='#pts-cs11.7.1'>PTS cs 11.7.1</a>Is then the cause of causes predetermined <span class='add'>by something else</span>? You deny. For if you assent, you commit yourself to this: that, because of the continued eventuating due to endless causation, there can never be an end made to Ill, nor any cutting off the round of rebirth, nor any <i>Nibbāna</i> free from the residual stuff of rebirth. </p>
<p><a class='ref pts-cs' id='pts-cs11.7.2' href='#pts-cs11.7.2'>PTS cs 11.7.2</a>Again, is the cause of any one of the five aggregates (body, mind) predetermined? If you assent, you commit yourself to the admission that the cause itself is predetermined by something else. And if you deny—and I insist, and take no denial—you, assenting, commit yourself to this—that there is, for this endless causation, no making an end of Ill, no cutting off of the round of rebirth, no <i>Nibbāna</i> without stuff of rebirth … .</p>
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<p><cite class='book' translate='no'>The Points of Controversy</cite>, an English translation of the Pali Abhidhamma Kathāvatthu. Translated by <span class='author'>Shwe Zan Aung</span> and <span class='author'>C.A.F. Rhys Davids</span>. First published by Pali Text Society, <span class='publication-date'>1915</span>.</p>
<p>This SuttaCentral edition was prepared by <span class='editor'>Manfred Wierich</span> and <span class='editor'>Ven. Vimala</span> and proofread by <span class='editor'>Josephine Tobin</span>. Some changes were introduced:</p>
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