causation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôz, IPA(key): /kɔːˈzeɪ.ʃən/, [kʰoːˈz̥eɪ.ʃən]
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /kɔˈzeɪ.ʃən/, [kʰɒːˈz̥eɪ.ʃən]
- (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /kɑˈzeɪ.ʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun[edit]
causation (countable and uncountable, plural causations)
- The act of causing.
- The act or agency by which an effect is produced.
- 1837, William Whewell, “Earliest Stages of Optics”, in History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Times. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: J. and J. J. Deighton, →OCLC, book II (History of the Physical Sciences in Ancient Greece), page 100:
- Aristotle's views led him to try to describe the kind of causation by which vision is produced, instead of the laws by which it is exercised; and the attempt consisted, as in other subjects, of indistinct principles, and ill-combined facts.
- Cause and effect, considered as a system.
- Synonym: causality
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
act of causing
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agency by which an effect is produced
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causality — see causality
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “causation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “causation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.