Philosophical possibility of omission’s causality on occurring criminal result

The possibility of criminal omission’s causality in occurring harmful results, is a polemical subject that discussed in scope of debate of causality in criminal law. Aggregately, various viewpoint in the context may be divided to two branch of advocates and opponents. With regard to the fact that choosing of each viewpoint has an important role on distinguishing sole of responsibility of perpetrator of omission or limits of his responsibility, the present study with a descriptive-analytical method and a philosophical attitude, attempts to prove a syllogism –any cause is existence or essence; each nonentity is not existence and nor essence; therefore, any cause is not nonentity- and attempts to distinguish the more correct viewpoint. Study’s result indicates that the syllogism is true and opponents’ viewpoint is prevalent. The criminal omission that is a type of nonentity, therefore, can’t be regarded as cause and can’t produces existential effects and causal relation can’t be rationally proved between omission and criminal results.