Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of causing.
- n. A cause.
- n. Causality.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of causing or producing; the principle of causality; the relation of cause to effect, or of effect to cause.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of causing something to happen
Etymologies
- From cause + -ation (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Thus Dowe (2000, 2001) develops an account of ersatz causation (causation*) to explain away our intuitions that absences can be genuinely causal.”
“For while the sphere of science is necessarily restricted to that of natural causation which it is her office to explore, the question touching the _nature of this natural causation_ is one which as necessarily lies without the whole sphere of such causation itself: therefore it lies beyond any possible intrusion by science.”
“The clear confusion of association and causation is appalling.”
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“The Robert Rubins of the world make it out to be that the debt/interest rate causation is so strong that it overwhelms every other economic actor.”
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“Untangling correlation and causation is difficult, and many of the causes overlap.”
“That is, final causation is an objective feature of the natural world, and not an imposition onto the natural world by a supernatural agency.”
“While proving direct causation is always tricky, there's a strong case to be made that climate change has contributed to fighting in Darfur and demographic changes along the coasts of the U.S.”
“Shorter version: When huge disruptive events happen that throw off normal societal restraints tracking causation is very messy.”
“Assuming correlation to be causation is a fundamental deviation from scientific method.”
“For the origin of life, intelligent causation is the best inference one can make, by virtue of the same process of reasoning we employ with other unobserved events of the remote past.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘causation’.
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JURI - courtroom speak
Legal glossary with special focus on courtroom vocabulary
accused, acquittal, ADA, adjournment, adjudication, affidavit, affirmed, aggravated range, aggravating factors, allegation, alleged, answer and 794 more...
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Cause and Effect
cause, effect, final cause, telos, aitia, causation, causal, causative, causativity, causatively, teleology, télos and 3 more...
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I am the law!
Words I learnt at law school
appeal, blackletter, contract, dictum, headnote, judgment, litigation, malfeasance, negligence, plaintiff, quantum, remedy and 216 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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toonacious_d's Words
risible, conundrum, monoglot, polyglot, omphaloskepsis, animosity, phillumenist, sedition, hegemony, hegemonic, numismatist, causality and 25 more...
Tweets
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oroboros One day the Eccentric was walking along an alleyway when a man fell from a rooftop and landed on him. The other man was unhurt, but the Eccentric was taken to the hospital.
Later, one of his sons asked him, "Father, you have told us that life itself should be an education, and that a wise man can learn a lesson from any event, but tell me, what can be learned from this occurrence?"
And the Eccentric answered, "Avoid all theoretical discussion concerning 'cause and effect' and place no faith in the outcome of logical sequence. How can one waste his time speculating on questions such as: 'If a man falls from the roof, will his neck be broken?' The other man fell, but my neck is broken." --"Magnus Machina" by Jan Cox p.130 Jan 16, 2008