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  • adjective pertaining to causation

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causation +‎ -al

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Examples

  • • To identify a direct and thus causational relationship between teachers and students, all other factors impacting student achievement, including out-of-school factors, would have to be controlled, resulting in a process that would cost more money and time than the state can fund.

    2 false claims that drive school reform 2011

  • The increase was so modest it is hard to believe that it was causational rather than a symptom of a preexisting metabolic dysfunction.

    Another China study | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008

  • But locomotions caused without immediate transmission were understood to be be embedded in larger patterns of causation which observed the principle of causational synonymy, and it is exactly such a larger pattern of causation which is missing in the case of celestial motions.

    Aristotle's Natural Philosophy Bodnar, Istvan 2006

  • Third, the principle of causational synonymy is restricted to substances at the end of Metaphysics and in the first half of the same chapter the non-standard presence of some causally relevant forms may also be envisaged.

    Aristotle's Natural Philosophy Bodnar, Istvan 2006

  • All these restrictions notwithstanding, Aristotle can claim that the principle of causational synonymy remains universally valid.

    Aristotle's Natural Philosophy Bodnar, Istvan 2006

  • Moreover, the principle of causational synonymy rules out that any homogenous mass, without an internal demarcation into components which move and are moved, could move itself

    Aristotle's Natural Philosophy Bodnar, Istvan 2006

  • It's a causational set of circumstances, but it's no excuse.

    CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2006 2006

  • If H2O is a NET MAGNIFIER after all forcings/feedbacks, then the AGW proponent models trend towards their doomsday rise — if H2O is not a NET MAGNIFIER never the AGW proponent assumption, even though Dr Lindzen among others presumes as much, then the causational threat is bogus.

    UCAR Webcast of Bradley, Crowley, Ammann – Apr 6, 2005 « Climate Audit 2005

  • However, the precise causational factors are not quite clear.

    What women who value their reproductive rights have lost 2005

  • Normal, rational, causational thinking confuses “Bob” and lowers him to human functioning.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

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