causation
[kaw-zey-shuh n]
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Origin of causation
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Examples from the Web for causation
Contemporary Examples
“The plaintiffs have to prove the causation aspect,” Shapiro told The Daily Beast.
The aforementioned surveys may not be sufficient to make any firm conclusions about correlation, and much less about causation.
The new study sees a correlation—and suggests a causation—between sexting and sex, but the conclusions researchers draw are vague.
For one thing, the Redskins Rule reveals correlation, not causation.
In arguing that abortion causes suicide, abortion opponents turn correlation into causation.
Historical Examples
Yet even the Will of Omnipotence is subject to the despotism of causation.
Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense MetaphysicsWilliam Thomas Thornton
The chain of causation which ends with suffering begins with ignorance.
History of ReligionAllan Menzies
To understand them they must be studied in connection and causation.
An Ethnologist's View of HistoryDaniel G. Brinton
Turgot had declared that one age is bound to another by a chain of causation.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3)John Morley
Comte; we are now chiefly concerned with his denial of all causation.
Christianity and Greek PhilosophyBenjamin Franklin Cocker
causation
- the act or fact of causing; the production of an effect by a cause
- the relationship of cause and effect
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Word Origin and History for causation
n.
1640s, from Latin causationem (nominative causatio) "excuse, pretext," in Medieval Latin "action of causing," from causa (see cause).
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