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causation

ˌkɔˈzeɪʃən
WordNet
  1. (n) causation
    the act of causing something to happen
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Causation
    The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. "The kind of causation by which vision is produced."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) causation
    The act of causing or producing; the principle of causality; the relation of cause to effect, or of effect to cause.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (ns) Causation
    the act of causing: the bringing about of an effect; the relation of cause and effect
Quotations
Citium Zeno
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
Citium Zeno
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Fr.,—L. causa.

Usage in the news

Why do people love to say that correlation does not imply causation . slate.com

Getting Causation Correct in the Riot Coverage. theatlantic.com

When Correlation Is Not Causation , But Something Much More Screwy. theatlantic.com

Correlation Is Not Causation . impomag.com

Correlation, but Not Causation . nytimes.com

Gene's Causative Link to Alzheimer's Is Disputed. nytimes.com

It's that right-most rise that interests me—the explosion of correlations that don't imply causation in the 1990s and 2000s. slate.com

When Correlation Is Not Causation, But Something Much More Screwy. theatlantic.com

Counsel says proximate causation proofs brought to arbitration key to win. milawyersweekly.com

Medical Malpractice – Causation Experts – Numerical Limitation Upheld. milawyersweekly.com

Despite common belief, Mycoplasma pneumoniae is an extremely rare causative agent for bullous myringitis . entjournal.com

In the paper, the authors note that such reverse causation is not likely for psychosis but ... cbsnews.com

When Correlation Is Not Causation, But Something Much More Screwy . theatlantic.com

Medical Malpractice – Causation – Speculative Evidence. milawyersweekly.com

Negligence – Causation – Unforeseeable Injury. milawyersweekly.com

Usage in scientific papers

But as we have already discussed in Section II, and as Bell was perfectly aware, a violation of Equation 10 does not necessarily indicate the presence of any nonlocal causation in the candidate theory in question.
Local Causality and Completeness: Bell vs. Jarrett

But that only matters if we drop what Bell calls “fundamental relativity” and instead read SR instrumentally, as prohibiting superluminal signalling but allowing in principle superluminal causation (so long as it can’t be harnessed by humans to transmit messages).
Local Causality and Completeness: Bell vs. Jarrett

We have already argued that, if one follows Bell in requiring λ to constitute a complete state description, then a violation of Jarrett’s “completeness” can only be understood as indicating the presence of nonlocal causation.
Local Causality and Completeness: Bell vs. Jarrett

The correct conclusion is therefore as follows: a violation of Jarrett’s “completeness” condition (where we are openly agnostic about the completeness of the state description λ) means either that we have relativityviolating nonlocal causation, or that we were dealing with incomplete state descriptions.
Local Causality and Completeness: Bell vs. Jarrett

There will of course still be difficult questions about how to decide whether a given candidate theory is true, and hence whether the particular sort of non-local causation contained in it accurately describes some aspect of Nature.
Local Causality and Completeness: Bell vs. Jarrett

Usage in literature

Before we look further into the matter it is well to note some exceptional cases of the causation of laughter. "More Science From an Easy Chair" by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester

Other conditions, however, enter largely into the causation of stone, or gravel. "Special Report on Diseases of Cattle" by U.S. Department of Agriculture

He again stood face to face with the most momentous question ever propounded by a waiting world: the question of causation. "Carmen Ariza" by Charles Francis Stocking

Of this system the general formula is causation. "A Modern Symposium" by G. Lowes Dickinson

The church of the land farmer corresponded by logical social causation to the social economy of this type. "The Evolution of the Country Community" by Warren H. Wilson

The simplest of all structures for a narrative is a straightway arrangement of events along a single strand of causation. "Materials and Methods of Fiction" by Clayton Hamilton

THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL CAUSATION. "Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic" by William Stebbing

Yet such propositions of moral causation can be proved from experience with reasonable probability. "Logic, Inductive and Deductive" by William Minto

Act, culpability, causation, damage, were the elements. "An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law" by Roscoe Pound

The causation of the sporadic form of cretinism is, however, obscure. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6" by Various

Usage in poetry
The beauteous earth, the glorious sun,
The calm sweet moon, the spangled sky,
Causation's law do make them run;
They live in bonds, in bonds they die.