These theories provide not only descriptions of, but also causal explanations for, the behavior of moving objects. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
A causal relationship between scarcity and higher prices. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
However, I heard discussion of objects being in causal contact requiring instantaneous connection. From Wordnik.com. [Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?] Reference
I think that if CO2 is a main causal variable, then we will see temperature increases going forward. From Wordnik.com. [What Kind of Global Warming Skeptic?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Why is it that moderately-skilled metaphysicians even do better with issues in causal flow than Darwinists?. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin or Design] Reference
Does it link events in causal relations, or does it simply juxtapose statements with one another, setting them disjointedly side by side?. From Wordnik.com. [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference
Along a certain causal chain of events traced through the actual history, Hitler's holocaust can indeed be laid at the feet of Darwin and his family. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin Strips Reality of Purpose?] Reference
Dale thought literary history mattered mainly as a connected narrative of improvement, and he accordingly asked students to explain causal connections in that narrative. From Wordnik.com. [Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault)] Reference
Brahman is then in its so-called causal condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
Here also the notion of causal efficacy comes to birth. From Wordnik.com. [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference
This falls into the general class of logical fallacies called causal fallacies. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Voters Reward Lucky Governments More than Good Ones:] Reference
When the directed graph is given a causal interpretation, it is called a causal graph. From Wordnik.com. [Probabilistic Causation] Reference
Some philosophers therefore think that this makes the idea of causal loops incoherent. From Wordnik.com. [Backward Causation] Reference
Regularities in our experience condition us to form the idea of causal necessity and to deduce that causes must generate events. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema] Reference
Being was defined as causal efficacity (arthakriyâ) and it was argued that only what is immediately present has such efficacity. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
Now the notion of causal dependence is very obscure and difficult, much more so in fact than is generally realised by philosophers. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays] Reference
Knowing how to be a citizen does appear to be missing ... but the causal is a government that reduced the power of being a citizen. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
The Great White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias, was positively identified as the causal species in all five of the attacks verified in 2008. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange County Register - Homepage] Reference
The straightforward kind of causal connection between mental activity and global warming. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Anti-Realism] Reference
To test this claim, we need not await proposals as to what the kind of causal relation in question is. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
This reasoning can be extended still further to cover the case of constitutive and even one kind of causal luck. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Luck] Reference
A mental occurrence to its "object" is regarded as merely indirect and causal, which is the view that we have adopted. From Wordnik.com. [The Analysis of Mind] Reference
Davidson, unlike Anscombe, argued that reason explanation of an action is also a kind of causal explanation of the action. From Wordnik.com. [Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe] Reference
The internal investigators do not believe either decision was "causal," said Kent Corser, a member of the investigating team. From Wordnik.com. [BP releases report on gulf well blowout] Reference
This looks like one of many possible "causal" variables used in the research. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
Demonstration at legislature includes one 'causal' worker with 31 years of service. From Wordnik.com. [National Union of Public and General Employees -] Reference
What other kind of causal/temporal distortions did you travel so far to warn us of?. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
The National Transportation Safety Board found the FAA was "causal" in the accident. From Wordnik.com. [WFAA.com Latest News] Reference
Ceriello A (2003) New insights on oxidative stress and diabetic complications may lead to a "causal" antioxidant therapy. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
We propose hypothetically to define "belief" by a different kind of causal efficacy, namely efficacy in causing voluntary movements. From Wordnik.com. [The Analysis of Mind] Reference
There’s not the kind of causal links to these events that Paul appears to believe in. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Rudy’s Appeal] Reference
There is no way to prove a causal relationship between the two. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Why The Raiders Will Win] Reference
We can't say there is a causal effect, but there is a correlation. From Wordnik.com. [Looking For Health On The Internet] Reference
The new genetic evidence suggests that it may indeed have been causal. From Wordnik.com. [Another Piece of the Puzzle] Reference
And even if a causal role is confirmed, the task will remain to figure out how the virus spreads-and how to stop it. From Wordnik.com. [A Clue To Chronic Fatigue] Reference
"Beliefs about yourself play a causal role in how likely you are to seek out challenges and in how resilient you are," says Dweck. From Wordnik.com. [When DNA is Not Destiny] Reference
The biological mechanism that would account for the causal connection is theoretically possible, IOM said – but only theoretically. From Wordnik.com. [Innoculation Misinformation] Reference
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