- 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...
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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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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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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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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...
- 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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Probabilistic causation is a
concept in a
group of
philosophical theories that aim to
characterize the
relationship between cause and
effect using the...
- Retrocausality, or
backwards causation, is a
concept of
cause and
effect in
which an
effect precedes its
cause in time and so a
later event affects an...
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claims that the
existence of God can be
inferred from
facts concerning causation, explanation, change, motion, contingency, dependency, or
finitude with...
