causality
the relation of cause and effect: The result is the same, however differently the causality is interpreted.
causal quality or agency.
Origin of causality
1Other words from causality
- non·cau·sal·i·ty, noun
Words that may be confused with causality
Words Nearby causality
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How to use causality in a sentence
“Like many studies that seek to implicate specific microbiome signatures with particular conditions in humans, as yet the work mostly reveals correlations rather than causality,” said Barrett.
A Secret to Healthy Aging May Be the Bugs in Your Microbiome | Shelly Fan | August 10, 2021 | Singularity HubThe results, while promising, were coming from trials that lacked the statistical guardrails that help scientists sort coincidence from causality.
When To Stop Hoping For a COVID-19 Miracle Cure | Maggie Koerth (maggie.koerth-baker@fivethirtyeight.com) | August 4, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightThere are also more restrictive, smaller boundaries of causality or exploration.
A Wrinkle in Nature Could Lead to Alien Life - Issue 99: Universality | Caleb Scharf | April 21, 2021 | NautilusThis means any event will have multiple mismatched light cones — in short, causality is indefinite.
Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect | Natalie Wolchover | March 11, 2021 | Quanta MagazineAll the papers about the quantum switch nod at the link between quantum gravity and indefinite causality.
Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect | Natalie Wolchover | March 11, 2021 | Quanta Magazine
But then, if a clear line of causality could be traced, we wouldn't be talking about Palmer.
The authors of the study made this clear, writing that the results were “not determined to show causality.”
Of course causality runs both ways; countries in trouble are more likely to get into a debt crisis.
Those statements are both true but they are not proof of causality, either.
Given the way some of these situations have played out, causality hardly seems important.
Robert Bales’s Alleged Crimes Show a Soldier Pushed to the Brink | Jesse Ellison | March 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTcausality there remains an empty name without promise of a real explanation.
Psychotherapy | Hugo MnsterbergTheir existence is therefore due to the divine causality, which never changes.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy | Isaac HusikThis innate need for explanation is then usually associated with an alleged a priori principle of causality inherent in the mind.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm WundtIf we would speak of causality at all on his level of experience, we may say only that he is governed by the causality of magic.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm WundtScientific reasoning and scientific observation can only hold good so long and in so far as the Law of causality holds good.
The Astronomy of the Bible | E. Walter Maunder
British Dictionary definitions for causality
/ (kɔːˈzælɪtɪ) /
the relationship of cause and effect
the principle that nothing can happen without being caused
causal agency or quality
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