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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

noun The act or process of causing.
noun A cause.
noun Causality.

from The Century Dictionary.

noun The act of causing or producing; the principle of causality; the relation of cause to effect, or of effect to cause.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

noun The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.
noun the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the other is certain to take place.

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noun The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

noun the act of causing something to happen

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From cause +‎ -ation

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Thus Dowe (2000, 2001) develops an account of ersatz causation (causation*) to explain away our intuitions that absences can be genuinely causal.

The Metaphysics of Causation Schaffer, Jonathan 2007
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.

Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
Untangling correlation and causation is difficult, and many of the causes overlap.

Beating Obesity 2010
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.

A Q&A with Stephan Faris, author of Forecast 2010
Untangling correlation and causation is difficult, and many of the causes overlap.

Beating Obesity 2010
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.

A Q&A with Stephan Faris, author of Forecast 2010
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.

Kotlikoff on Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
Untangling correlation and causation is difficult, and many of the causes overlap.

Beating Obesity 2010
The clear confusion of association and causation is appalling.

Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Truth TOPS Bias at TOS Meeting 2009
That is, final causation is an objective feature of the natural world, and not an imposition onto the natural world by a supernatural agency.

April 20th, 2009 m_francis 2009

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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

January 17, 2008

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

from The Century Dictionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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