The phrase "a causal explanation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the reasons or causes behind a particular event or phenomenon.
Example: "The researcher provided a causal explanation for the increase in temperature, linking it to human activities such as deforestation and fossil fuel consumption."
Alternatives: "a cause-and-effect explanation" or "an explanation of causality".
The aim of physical theories is not to offer a causal explanation or to study the causes of phenomena, but simply to represent them.
Frith's idea is that a causal explanation of a psychotic phenomenon, or some other mental symptom, must cite properly cognitive variables to be explanatory.
Rituals pose a cognitive paradox: although widely used to treat problems, rituals are causally opaque (i.e., they lack a causal explanation for their effects).
A causal explanation is not necessarily a justification, and what causally explains our intuitions about Normal Tool's unfreedom need not also justify those intuitions.
We aim to construct a predictive GRN that provides a causal explanation of this cellular differentiation event.
When we use instrument variables approach to handle endogenous problem, we can find a causal explanation of the effect of caring for parents and grandchildren on labor supply.
But he suspected that the assumptions wouldn't bear scrutiny, and he was haunted by the idea that hoping for a causal explanation of human affairs might be a mistake.
That may be correct, but I think the key in both cases is to give a causal explanation for the change.(Photo credit: AFP).
Aristotle distinguished science from other kinds of knowledge on the grounds that it gave a causal explanation for observable experience, and its claims were systematic (logically coherent).
The account is thought to provide a causal explanation of how the religion came to exist and, at the same time, a foundation for its morality and system of understanding.
A causal explanation of an event cites a sufficient condition for that event's occurrence.
