Causation

Causation may refer to:

  • Causality, in philosophy, a relationship that describes and analyses cause and effect
  • Causality (physics)

Other uses:

  • Causation (law), a key component to establish liability in both criminal and civil law
  • Causation in English law defines the requirement for liability in negligence
  • Causation (sociology), the belief that events occur in predictable ways and that one event leads to another
  • Proximate causation
  • "Correlation does not imply causation", phrase used in the sciences and statistics
  • Proximate cause, the basis of liability in negligence in the United States

Famous quotes containing the word causation:

    “The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is based on induction, or, if you please, the a priori presumption, that physical causation is universal; that the constitution of nature is written in its actual manifestations, and needs only to be deciphered by experimental and inductive research; that it is not a latent invisible writing, to be brought out by the magic of mental anticipation or metaphysical mediation.”
    —Chauncey Wright (1830–1875)