- Look up
causation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Causation may
refer to: Causality, a
relationship that
describes and
analyses cause and
effect Causality...
- The
phrase "correlation does not
imply causation"
refers to the
inability to
legitimately deduce a cause-and-effect
relationship between two
events or...
- own actions).
Agent causation contrasts with
event causation,
which occurs when an
event causes another event.
Whether agent causation as a
concept is logically...
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Aristotle further discerned two
modes of
causation:
proper (prior)
causation and
accidental (chance)
causation. All causes,
proper and accidental, can...
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Causation is the "causal
relationship between the defendant's
conduct and end result". In
other words,
causation provides a
means of
connecting conduct...
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Universal causation is the
proposition that
everything in the
universe has a
cause and is thus an
effect of that cause. This
means that if a
given event...
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which [there is] nothing." Also, "sine qua non
causation" is the
formal terminology for "but-for
causation." As a
Latin term, it
occurs in the work of Boethius...
- deem the
event to be the
cause of that injury.
There are two
types of
causation in the law: cause-in-fact, and
proximate (or legal) cause. Cause-in-fact...
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reciprocal causation arises when
developing organisms are both
products of
evolution as well as
causes of evolution. Formally,
reciprocal causation exists...
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Causation in
economics has a long
history with Adam
Smith explicitly acknowledging its
importance via his (1776) An
Inquiry into the
Nature and Causes...
