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...

Aristotle further discerned two modes of causation: proper (prior) causation and accidental (chance) causation. All causes, proper and accidental, can...

Causation is the "causal relationship between the defendant's conduct and end result". In other words, causation provides a means of connecting conduct...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Probabilistic causation is a concept in a group of philosophical theories that aim to characterize the relationship between cause and effect using the...

Sociologists use the related pair of terms "proximal causation" and "distal causation". Proximal causation: explanation of human social behaviour by considering...

In philosophy, downward causation is a causal relationship from higher levels of a system to lower-level parts of that system: for example, mental events...

increasing inequalities, and poverty, which is known as circular cumulative causation. James Moody, Assistant Professor at Ohio State University, states that...

general category of its natural contents) typically in the context of causation, change, contingency or finitude. In referring to reason and observation...

The Role of the Church in the Causation, Treatment and Prevention of the Crisis in the Priesthood, a report submitted to the General Assembly of the Synod...

Causation refers to the existence of "cause and effect" relationships between multiple variables. Causation presumes that variables, which act in a predictable...

expressed by the commonly heard statement that "correlation does not imply causation." In statistics, it is generally accepted that observational studies can...

Dependent origination can be contrasted with the classic Western concept of causation in which an action by one thing is said to cause a change in another thing...

The problem of mental causation is a conceptual issue in the philosophy of mind. That problem, in short, is how to account for the common-sense idea that...

Animals 645a 21–26, Book I, Part 5. George Holmes Howison highlights "final causation" in presenting his theory of metaphysics, which he terms "personal idealism"...

by James Lovelock in Nature, who argued that "the theory of formative causation makes testable predictions," noting that "nothing has yet been reported...

reciprocal causation arises when developing organisms are both products of evolution as well as causes of evolution. Formally, reciprocal causation exists...

Hume and the Problem of Causation is a book written by Tom Beauchamp and Alexander Rosenberg, published in 1981 by Oxford University Press. Beauchamp...

Occasionalism is a philosophical doctrine about causation which says that created substances cannot be efficient causes of events. Instead, all events...

The word has two senses: one that connotes known causation and one that connotes absence of causation or reservation of judgment about it. In the philosophy...

(/ˌiːtiˈɒlədʒi/; alternatively spelled aetiology or ætiology) is the study of causation or origination. The word is derived from the Greek word αἰτιολογία (aitiología)...

back to the mid-1990s and leans heavily towards the social causation model. The social causation theory is an older theory with more evidence and research...

She is best known for her research on the counterfactual analysis of causation and the concept of "transformative experience." Born November 10, 1966...

Secondary causation is the philosophical proposition that all material and corporeal objects, having been created by God with their own intrinsic potentialities...

among athletic trainers. The study used Bandura's triadic reciprocal causation model as a template to label job satisfaction as the behavioural factor...