law of causation

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noun

1. Also, law of causality, a philosophical principle in which everything that happens is caused by something else.

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law of causation

Everything is natural, and happens under the universal law of causation.

From The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism by G. W. (George William) Foote

Again, his statement of the law of causation is inadequate.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Let us suppose this to be true; then what is the reason for believing in the law of causation?

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Another weighty objection against the Lutheran theory of justification is that it disregards the law of causation.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss

But how do we know the truth of this law of causation itself?

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace