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Definition of Causation
1. Noun. The act of causing something to happen.
Generic synonyms: Act, Deed, Human Action, Human Activity
Specialized synonyms: Sending, Induction, Initiation, Trigger, Coercion, Compulsion, Influence, Inducement, Inducing
Derivative terms: Cause, Cause
Definition of Causation
1. n. The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.
Definition of Causation
1. Noun. The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Causation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Causation
Literary usage of Causation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"Spinoza revived the law of causation along with other Stoic principles, but never
clearly distinguished it from the chain of reasons and consequents by ..."
2. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logicby William Hamilton, John Veitch, Henry Longueville Mansel by William Hamilton, John Veitch, Henry Longueville Mansel (1870)
"This objection precisely reverses the fact. Causation is by me proclaimed to be
identical with change,—change of power into act, ..."
3. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green, Richard Lewis Nettleship (1890)
"IT is commonly supposed that there are two views about causation, between which
our choice lies; one that it is simply a relation of uniform sequence ..."
4. Psychology; Or, The Science of Mind by Oliver S. Munsell (1880)
"(b) The unity of this law of causation. It does not su£ fice, as an adequate
basis for legitimate induction, to assume merely that causation as such is ..."
5. Moral Values: A Study of the Principles of Conduct by Walter Goodnow Everett (1918)
"The indeterminist, however, is prone to assume that whatever is within the sphere
of such final causation is necessarily * outside that of efficient ..."
6. The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated by James McCosh (1867)
"In particular, causation in the will may differ from causation in other mental
Action. I am prepared indeed to maintain that our volitions are not ..."
7. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1905)
"Montgomery, Л. Causation and its organic condition. Mind, vii, 1883, pp. ...
JB Empirical theory of causation. Philos. Лет., vii, 1898, pp. 43-61. ..."
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