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Definition of Causal agency
1. Noun. Any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results.
Generic synonyms: Physical Entity
Specialized synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul, Agent, Nature, Occult, Supernatural, Theurgy, First Cause, Prime Mover, Primum Mobile, Destiny, Fate, Catalyst, Deus Ex Machina, Manipulator, Operator, Force, Power, Life Principle, Vital Principle, Engine, Cause Of Death, Killer, Danger, Agent
Derivative terms: Causal, Cause, Cause
Lexicographical Neighbors of Causal Agency
Literary usage of Causal agency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mental Science and Methods of Mental Culture: Designed for the Use of Normal by Edward Brooks (1891)
"TESTS OF causal agency.—This difficulty in determining the cause of facts ...
tests by which we may ascertain the causal agency in any particular case and ..."
2. The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1907)
"... and so they bear the marks of having some causal agency yet to be found.
This limitation of the meaning of the term should be emphasized and repeated. ..."
3. The Human Mind by James Sully (1892)
"It is, indeed, only when we ourselves produce an effect by the use of our muscular
powers that we have a direct consciousness of causal agency so far as ..."
4. The Elements of Intellectual Science: A Manual for Schools and Colleges by Noah Porter (1874)
"In common life a distinction is made between the efficient and patient cause,
the last being used for the object, ie, that on which the causal agency shows ..."
5. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"This awakening is the opera- machinery, the causal agency, throughout, quite as
sh so in the kind of association I have culled by the name of Similarity, ..."
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