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causality
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Causality \Cau*sal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Causalities.
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The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
The causality of the divine mind.
--Whewell. (Phren.) The faculty of tracing effects to their causes.
--G. Combe.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from causal + -ity.
Wiktionary
n. The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
WordNet
n. the relation between causes and effects
Wikipedia
Causality (also referred to as causation, or cause and effect) is the agency or efficacy that connects one process (the cause) with another process or state (the effect), where the first is understood to be partly responsible for the second, and the second is dependent on the first. In general, a process has many causes, which are said to be causal factors for it, and all lie in its past. An effect can in turn be a cause of many other effects. Although retrocausality is sometimes referred to in thought experiments and hypothetical analyses, causality is generally accepted to be temporally bound so that causes always precede their dependent effects.
Causality is an abstraction that indicates how the world progresses, so basic a concept that it is more apt as an explanation of other concepts of progression than as something to be explained by others more basic. The concept is like those of agency and efficacy. For this reason, a leap of intuition may be needed to grasp it. Accordingly, causality is built into the conceptual structure of ordinary language.
In Aristotelian philosophy, the word 'cause' is also used to mean 'explanation' or 'answer to a why question', including Aristotle's material, formal, efficient, and final "causes"; then the "cause" is the explanans for the explanandum. In this case, failure to recognize that different kinds of "cause" are being considered can lead to futile debate. Of Aristotle's four explanatory modes, the one nearest to the concerns of the present article is the "efficient" one.
The topic remains a staple in contemporary philosophy.
While studying of meaning of causality semantics traditionally appeal to the Chicken or the egg causality dilemma, i.e. "which came first, the chicken or the egg?". Then it allocates its constituent elements: a cause, an effect and link itself, that joins both of them.
Causality is the relationship between causes and effects. It is considered to be fundamental to all natural science, especially physics. Causality is also a topic studied from the perspectives of philosophy and statistics. Causality means that an effect can not occur from a cause which is not in the back (past) light cone of that event. Similarly, a cause can not have an effect outside its front (future) light cone.
Causality may refer to:
Economics:
- Granger causality
- Causal layered analysis
Linguistics:
- Causal-final case
Mathematics:
- Causal Markov condition
Philosophy:
- Causality
- Causal determinism
- Causal relationships
- Causal theory of reference
- Causalism
- Fallacy of the single cause
Science and engineering:
- Causality (physics)
- Causal sets
- Causal dynamical triangulation
- Causal filter
- Causal perturbation theory
- Causal system
- Causality loop (disambiguation)
Television:
- Causality (short) in 2012
- Cause and Effect (TNG episode)
Other:
- Causal loop diagram, infographics concept
- Causal realm, in mysticism
Usage examples of "causality".
If the skein of historical causality had been different - if the brilliant guesses of the atomists on the nature of matter, the plurality of worlds, the vastness of space and time had been treasured and built upon, if the innovative technology of Archimedes had been taught and emulated, if the notion of invariable laws of Nature that humans must seek out and understand had been widely propagated - I wonder what kind of world we would live in now.
Matter should be the cause of Mind, in that precise degree must it be unthinkable that Mind was ever the cause of Matter, the correlatives being in each case the same, and experience affording no evidence of causality in either.
The Freudian notion of sexual causality is brought into play to counterpoint and subvert the controlling historicism of the narrative perspective.
In strict causality, the impact of the macroscopicThe slithy roves did gyre and gimble in the wabe, thought Roger Phlutter.
With this less metaphysically burdened concept of causality, it becomes perfectly obvious that mental phenomena do act as causes of subsequent mental and physical events.
There was one based on palindromic constructions, symmetric in time, that seemed to be designed to describe situations with looping causality, or even causality violation.
In strict causality, the impact of the macroscopicThe slithy roves did gyre and gimble in the wabe, thought Roger Phlutter.
All the natural laws that man feels he has discovered are intuitive or intellectual reflections of our physical mind and thought, discerning limited aspects of this great and simple law of causality, polarity and differentiation.
But even as regards the second order of causality the soul is to some extent the cause of flesh being united to the Son of God.
It is rather our conclusion after an analysis of the structures of self, morality, notions of causality, types of cognition, and so on, that emerge at various stages of development.
An alternative, phenomenological interpretation of causality that is most appropriately applied to mental causation asserts simply: if a set of one or more events A precedes an event B, and B does not occur without the prior occurrence of A, then A is said to cause B.
But division there is and the inner connectedness of all things within the One, is perceived as causality.
The former is in reality a consequence of the principle of causality (the second of the analogies of experience).
In the early Ahn of battle a common cause of causalities, particularly with young warriors, is recklessness, and the failure to use the shield properly to protect oneself.
In the late Ahn of a battle, however, an even more common cause of causalities, interestingly enough, is the simple inability to lift, control and maneuver the shield.