causal

Modifies a noun

• attribution: Factors of interest The study of spontaneously made causal attributions during an open-ended interview with seriously mentally ill patients.
• determinism: We also argue that a potent direct challenge to moral responsibility from causal determinism does not succeed.
• inference: The debate on causal inferences is a bit more difficult.
• reasoning: Combining social concepts: the role of causal reasoning.
• explanation: In the second, he offers causal explanations for what he is considering.
• antecedent: EITHER What causal antecedents does an intentional action have to have?

Modifying Another Word

• also: These theories provide not only descriptions of, but also causal explanations for, the behavior of moving objects.
• not: As such, it is not causal in the mechanistic sense; nonetheless, it exhibits a kind of causality.
• necessarily: It is important to note, however, that these positive associations are not necessarily causal.
• directly: For I believe God is not the cause of evil, or cause of good in that directly causal sense.
• genuinely: Yet we have still not directly attributed welfare reform to identifiable subjects in a genuinely causal explanation.
• somehow: Further, it is the originator on its own that is somehow causal, as distinct from a set of items including the originator.

Preposition: in

• character: Indeed, contemporary physics tells us the actual world abounds with probabilistic processes that are causal in character.