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causation

noun/kɔːˈzeɪ.ʃən/

What It Means

The act of causing.

The act or agency by which an effect is produced.

Cause and effect.

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Causation in Context

“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.”

— 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...

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From cause + -ation.

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