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The relation between causes and effects
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causality
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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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the relation between causes and effects
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from causal + -ity .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Disentangling all the connective strands and lines of causality is a task beyond our scope. ▪ Explanations with physical content draw on the laws of physical causality . ▪ Improved concepts of causality , space, time, and speed ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Causality \Cau*sal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Causalities . 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.
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.