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English
Etymology
From cause + -ation.
Pronunciation
Noun
causation (countable and uncountable, plural causations)
- The act of causing.
- The act or agency by which an effect is produced.
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 Parker, ; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: J. and J. J. Deighton, →OCLC, book II (History of the Physical Sciences in Ancient Greece), page 100: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.
- Cause and effect, considered as a system.
- Synonym: causality
Derived terms
Translations
agency by which an effect is produced
See also
Further reading
- “causation”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “causation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.