causation
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- noun
- /kɔːˈzeɪʃən/
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causación
- Is this a symptom of causation or correlation?
- causation and correlation
- causation of accidents
- causation of injury
Though in all those cases the causation might go both ways.
- Though in all those cases the causation might go both ways.
- Every time you observed on certain kind of causation, it had a particular structure.
- And there's this retro retrograde component in causation, retro causation.
- OK, which direction is the arrow of causation going?
- So the the next one is what you might call mental causation.
- I'm trying to work out what direction this arrow of causation goes.
- Not a proof because correlation is not causation.
- The distinction between correlation and causation, right And, or is there a third?
- Well, we should examine causation and necessity, he says.
- But then you ask about causation, but causation doesn't require that, right?
- That is to say, it's the view of causation common sense Hume.
Examples
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The researchers studied the causation of health issues linked to environmental factors.
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Positive effects demonstrated that there was causation between student outcome measures and a particular grading system.
Academic text (1993) -
If you were to take a class you might look at things like causation, free will, space, and time.
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I want to start my comments with looking at the causation of this crisis at our southern border.
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How do you establish causation between these methods?
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The question then becomes: how far down the chain of causation can liability extend?
Academic text (1999) -
The principle that correlation does not determine causation is a standard principle.
Academic text (1992) -
You know there's a huge difference between causation and correlation.
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One important concept is that we can't infer causation without variation.
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One of the most important criteria in determining causation in epidemiology is an exposure-response relationship.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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A cause or explanation for something that happened
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The main reason why a problem happens
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A link that shows one thing makes another happen
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A step that makes something start, often at the beginning
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6.8
An action that makes something happen
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5.8
An act that makes something happen, often a change in the body like labor or sleep
Making something happen or putting plans into action
Antonyms
How Causal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word causation comes from the Latin word causa, which means 'reason' or 'cause', and was used for what makes something happen. So, causation is the connection that shows how a 'cause' leads to an effect.