Abstract

The main objective of this article is to determine how Delfim Santos positions himself in relation to what I designated as the question of the limits of the application of causality in science. With this objective in mind, I divided the article into three sections: in the first, I show how Delfim Santos exposes these two opposing positions, namely, on the one hand, the universalist position, and on the other hand, the rejectionist position; in the second, I present Delfim Santos’ critique of these two opposing positions, namely, both the critique he weaves of the universalist position and the critique he weaves of the rejectionist position; in the third, I present Delfim Santos’ position in relation to the universalist position and the rejectionist position.