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Definition of Causal agent
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 Agent
Literary usage of Causal agent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1907)
"We have evidence that active consciousness is a causal agent and it is this fact
which gives force to the idea of telepathy when identity and coincidence ..."
2. Risk Assessment for Neurobehavioral Toxicity edited by Bernard Weiss, Jurg Elsner (1997)
"Their conclusion was that "Minamata disease occurred by eating contaminated fish
and shellfish and organic mercury is most suspected as the causal agent" ..."
3. Emerging Technologies And Ethical Issues In Engineering: Papers From A by National Academy of Engineering, National Academies (U.S.) (2004)
"In this sense, responsibility may not have ethical significance—for example, when
the causal agent is something, such as a storm, that is not a moral agent. ..."
4. Naturalism and Agnosticism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the by James Ward (1899)
"Hither it is itself causally efficient or there is a causal agent behind it.
But for an answer to these questions Naturalism refers us to Agnosticism. ..."
5. History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time by Friedrich Ueberweg (1876)
"Beginning with causal agent«, conceived a> imperfectly known ; progressing to
causal agents conceived as less known and less ..."
6. Potential Transmission of Spongiform Encephalopathies to Humans: The Food edited by Christopher Shays (1998)
"THEORIES REGARDING THE NATURE OF THE causal agent: There are a limited number of
theories regarding identity of the causal agent. ..."
7. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1899)
"In order to bring about, if possible, a more active localised development of the
causal agent of foot-and-mouth disease, experiments were made with mixtures ..."
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