Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, involving, or constituting a cause.
- adjective Indicative of or expressing a cause.
- noun A word or grammatical element, such as since or because, expressing a cause or reason.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Constituting or being a cause; producing effects or results; causative; creative: as, causal energy.
- Relating to a cause or causes; implying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause.
- noun In grammar, a word that expresses a cause, or introduces a reason.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A causal word or form of speech.
- adjective Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, or being a
cause of something;causing - noun grammar a
word (such asbecause ) that expresses areason or a cause
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective involving or constituting a cause; causing
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Examples
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Now, while our _idea of God_ thus tells us that God has in his hand all causal chains in the world, and its million-threaded web in constant omni-surveying presence and in all-controlling omnipotence, our reflection on the _world_ and its substance and course also leads us from the _a posteriori_ starting-point of analytical investigation precisely to the same result; it even leads us to a still more concrete conception of this idea -- namely, to the result, that not only the _causal chains, in their totality and in their web_, but also _all single links_ of these chains,
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid
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I think that if CO2 is a main causal variable, then we will see temperature increases going forward.
What Kind of Global Warming Skeptic?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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However, I heard discussion of objects being in causal contact requiring instantaneous connection.
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And yet the notion that socioeconomic factors being the main causal relationship to terrorism exists in higher academia, notably from this Stanford University thesis in 2002 which asserts that “certain socioeconomic and demographic factors seem to help create this kind of terrorism and make it easier to recruit terrorists”.
Terrorism Has No Causal Relationship To Socioeconomic Factors « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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However, I heard discussion of objects being in causal contact requiring instantaneous connection.
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Along a certain causal chain of events traced through the actual history, Hitler's holocaust can indeed be laid at the feet of Darwin and his family.
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By causal is meant channeling the energy in specific ways, to disrupt certain things such as groups, organizations, or target/attack specific individuals.
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And yet the notion that socioeconomic factors being the main causal relationship to terrorism exists in higher academia, notably from this Stanford University thesis in 2002 which asserts that “certain socioeconomic and demographic factors seem to help create this kind of terrorism and make it easier to recruit terrorists”.
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Dale thought literary history mattered mainly as a connected narrative of improvement, and he accordingly asked students to explain causal connections in that narrative.
Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault) 2008
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Along a certain causal chain of events traced through the actual history, Hitler's holocaust can indeed be laid at the feet of Darwin and his family.
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