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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

increasing inequalities, and poverty, which is known as circular cumulative causation. Drought intensifies through positive feedback. A lack of rain decreases...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

thinking and evidence is summarized in Koch's postulates. But proof of causation in infectious diseases is limited to individual cases that provide experimental...

relationship Moderating relationship Causality Correlation does not imply causation Illusory correlation Model specification Omitted-variable bias Post hoc...

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

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"...

Causation in English law concerns the legal tests of remoteness, causation and foreseeability in the tort of negligence. It is also relevant for English...

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

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...

terms of efficient causation but in terms of final "causation". One problem with this approach is that the two forms of causation do not have to be incompatible...

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

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