causation
causation is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the other is certain to take place.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- according
- accordingly
- act
- acting
- action
- adventitious
- agency
- are
- attitude
- attribution
- bear
- being
- bring
- case
- certain
- circumstance
- circumstantial
- come
- conditional
- conditionally
- conjunctive
- context
- contingency
- contingent
- crisis
- critical
- dependence
- despair
- doing
- effect
- effectual
- efficacious
- efficient
- emergence
- emergency
- environment
- event
- exercise
- exigency
- extrinsic
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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