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How to solve causality dilemmas?

BottomlessOlive
in General Philosophy

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Many times a person is faced with a causality dilemma. Is there a general framework for solving such problems?

 

For example, if "A cannot happen unless B happens, but B cannot happen unless A happens", one possible approach to solving the problem is to guess or assume something about A, determine B, then repeat until A and B hopefully satisfy some desired outcome.

Do you have any real examples of causality dilemmas that can be solved?

Life is a perfect example of this problem: life cannot be if death does not happen, but death cannot be if life does not happen. This is such with many opposites.

Edited by Avalanche2001

I agree that life is needed for death to happen, but I don't see how death is needed for life to happen. Life happens before and until death, not after or on any condition that death must occur.

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