causation
causation
Definition
cau·sa·tion (kô zā′s̸hən)
noun
- the act of causing
- a causal agency; anything producing an effect
- causality
causation
Law Definition
n
The act of causing or
producing an effect or a result. See also chain
of causation, causality, and cause.
causation
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- disease: The targeted population public coverage increased causation of disease to health care.
- cancer: These results do not by themselves prove causation of cancer, rather they show relevant bio-effects in certain susceptible subsets of the population.
Converse of object
- imply: The golden rule has to be: correlation does not imply causation!
- prove: You need to prove causation, then loss, then to quantify the loss.
- establish: In contrast, it is for the claimant to establish causation.
- regard: She also agreed that, in exceptional circumstances, the rules regarding causation may be modified on policy grounds.
- involve: I do not think that circular time involves backward causation of any unacceptable kind.
Adjective modifier
- probabilistic: The connection we already have involves the Proposition of Neural Indeterminacy, probabilistic causation, and the Correlation Hypothesis.
- supernatural: The problem with any ' supernatural causation ' is that by definition it cannot be proven.
- backward: Circular time seems to have committed me to backward causation.
- cumulative: It therefore widens performance between member states, which through cumulative causation grow greater.
- downward: The downward causation observed in physics or biology does not have such a strong impact.
- mental: There is, in some sense, mental causation.
Modifies a noun
- hearing: She reported for the second time on 1 January 2006 after the causation hearing had taken place.
- factor: To show clearly all causation factors involved in every accident.
Noun used with modifier
- accident: Accident causation is a term used to describe the process leading up to an accident.
- crash: TRL 323 is not a study of crash causation.
- disease: The mechanism of disease causation still needs to be established for both disorders.
- agent: Answers to this question tended to be weak as very few candidates discussed or even mentioned the notion of agent causation.
- cancer: Students should also understand the diverse mechanisms by which different agents may play an important role in cancer causation alongside epidemiological evidence.
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