law of causation

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

The answer given by Mill is that the inference depends upon the law of causation.

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

Now this last-mentioned element in the resolution of a derivative law, the element which is not a law of causation, but a collocation of causes, cannot itself be reduced to any law.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart

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 Russell, Bertrand

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

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

The law of causation is, that change can only be produced by change.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart