Re-reading the Principle of Causality as Interpreated in Transcendental Philosophy

The state of being, occurrence, essential possibility and the possibility of need are among the criteria that have been proposed to justify the need of some things. Each of these criteria has been criticized and denied by others. Some contemporary thinkers have also criticized and rejected the last point of view, the poverty possibility, and have introduced the possibility of meaning as the only correct criterion of need for cause. In this article, according to the two meanings of the criteria (cause and reason), the above views have been examined and shown that all of them are facing challenges. By dividing cause into analytical and external, semantic possibility has been introduced as the criterion of need for the cause in analytical causation and the cause itself as the criterion of need for the cause in external causation. Also, by dividing causality into agent, final, material and formal, complete and incomplete, direct and indirect, longitudinal and transversal, real and as ground, the criterion of need for each of them has been determined separately.