Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The principle of or relationship between cause and effect.
- noun A causal agency, force, or quality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which constitutes a cause; the activity of causing; the character of an event as causing.
- noun The relation of cause to effect, or of effect to cause; the law or principle that nothing can happen or come into existence without a cause. See
law of causation , under causation. - noun In phrenology, the faculty, localized in an organ or division of the brain, to which is attributed the tracing of effects to their causes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
- noun (Phren.) The faculty of tracing effects to their causes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the relation between causes and effects
Etymologies
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Examples
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The interesting causality is that one of the reasons the Republicans took so long to retake Congress is that they thought it was a good idea to campaign against Social Security and Medicare.
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Steve: The interesting causality is that one of the reasons the Republicans took so long to retake Congress is that they thought it was a good idea to campaign against Social Security and Medicare.
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It seems pretty trivial as statement, but correlation and causality is too often considered as being the same.
Mankiw Defends his Tall Tale, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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"From the moment of my birth, light (that I could have influenced) has been expanding around the Earth and light (which could influence me, from an increasing distance of origin) reaching it -- this ever-growing sphere of potential causality is my light cone."
Personal Light Cone james_nicoll 2010
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How causality is approached can be a matter of perspective.
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In turn, belief in causality requires a prime cause, and almost all religion is based on trying to explain in one way or another the prime cause.
January « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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The causality is not that simple as is sometimes argued, he says.
Europe Seeking to Break U.S. Ratings Monopoly | Impact Lab 2010
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The causality is not that simple as is sometimes argued, he says.
Europe Seeking to Break U.S. Ratings Monopoly | Impact Lab 2010
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In turn, belief in causality requires a prime cause, and almost all religion is based on trying to explain in one way or another the prime cause.
Being Special « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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"From the moment of my birth, light (that I could have influenced) has been expanding around the Earth and light (which could influence me, from an increasing distance of origin) reaching it -- this ever-growing sphere of potential causality is my light cone."
Personal Light Cone james_nicoll 2010
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