causation
Etymology

From cause + -ation.

Pronunciation
  • (RP) enPR: kôz, IPA: /kɔːˈzeɪ.ʃən/, [kʰoːˈz̥eɪ.ʃən]
  • (America) IPA: /kɔˈzeɪ.ʃən/, [kʰɒːˈz̥eɪ.ʃən]
  • (cot-caught) IPA: /kɑˈzeɪ.ʃən/
Noun

causation

  1. The act of causing.
  2. 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.
  3. Cause and effect, considered as a system.
    Synonyms: causality
Translations
  • French: causation
  • German: Ursache
  • Russian: причинная связь
  • Spanish: causación



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