This is not to say I agree with everything Kalupahana writes about the early teachings. In particular I would fault his discussion of paticcasamuppada (“Dependent Arising”) or, as he terms it, “causality.” My problem lies in particular with that word—causality. As defined by Merriam-Webster, causality is “the relation between a cause and its effect or between regularly correlated events or phenomena.” Consulting Hume, we get his first three points on causality, which define the commonsense notion: