Causation may refer to:
Philosophy
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Causality, a relationship that describes and analyses cause and effect
Physics
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Causality (physics)
Causality is the relationship between causes and effects. While causality is also a topic studied from the perspectives of philosophy and physics, it is operationalized so that causes of an event must be in the past light cone of the event and ...
Law
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Causation (law)
Causation is the "causal relationship between the defendant's conduct and end result". In other words, causation provides a means of connecting conduct with a resulting effect, typically an injury. In criminal law, it is defined as the ''actus ...
, a key component to establish liability in both criminal and civil law
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Proximate cause
In law and insurance, a proximate cause is an event sufficiently related to an injury that the courts deem the event to be the cause of that injury. There are two types of causation in the law: cause-in-fact, and proximate (or legal) cause. Ca ...
, the basis of liability in negligence in the United States
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Causation, in English law, defines the requirement for liability in negligence
Language
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Correlation does not imply causation
The phrase "correlation does not imply causation" refers to the inability to legitimately deduce a cause-and-effect relationship between two events or variables solely on the basis of an observed association or correlation between them. The id ...
", phrase used in the sciences and statistics
Sociology
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Causation (sociology)
Causation refers to the existence of " cause and effect" relationships between multiple variables. Causation presumes that variables, which act in a predictable manner, can produce change in related variables and that this relationship can be ded ...
, the belief that events or actions can directly produce change in another variable in a predictable and observable manner
Other uses
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Proximate causation
A proximate cause is an event which is ''closest'' to, or immediately responsible for causing, some observed result. This exists in contrast to a higher-level ultimate cause (or distal cause) which is usually thought of as the "real" reason so ...
, the direct reason behind an event occurring
See also
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Causality (disambiguation)
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Cause (disambiguation)
Cause may refer to:
Relationships between events
* Causality
* Cause and effect, a relationship between one event and another
Law
* Cause, a lawsuit
* Just cause (employment law)
* Probable cause
* Show cause
Other uses
* Cause, such as a social ...
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