Sentence examples for as a causal relation from inspiring English sources

These results should therefore be regarded as hypothesis-generating to explain the relation with type 2 diabetes and not as a causal relation.

A recent IARC evaluation posited a "pleuripotential" mode of action manifested as a causal relation between TCDD and all cancers combined in the absence of a consistent finding for any specific cancer site (1).

Since the study was a cross-sectional and descriptive type, the association observed in the study cannot be assumed as being a causal relation.

Describing what is now regarded as a classic experiment, Skinner was in no doubt as to the mechanism involved: "The bird behaves as if there were a causal relation between its behaviour and the presentation of food, although such a relation is lacking," he wrote.

Two sequences of identical types may show differences in proportions or in rates of change, leading to additional inferences, such as the assumption of a causal relation.

This is true, for example, of the use of verbs such as 'damage', which imply a causal relation between an agency and the harm done.

The data remain equivocal as to whether there is a causal relation between the changes in brain activity produced by hypnotic inductions and those produced by other suggestions.

Kant gives a preliminary explanation of this idea at §64 by calling attention to three respects in which an organism, such as a tree, stands in a causal relation to its own existence.

In his answer to Leibniz, Ward remarks that the theory of physical influx categorizes the terms of a causal relation as substances to which qualities inhere; on this theory, even the monads are therefore conceived as if they were things.

We define a causal relation as a target at the current time having directed dependence on a regulator at the past time, when conditioned on the rest of the regulators (Figure 1(a)).

This is unlikely to be a causal relation as there was no association with longer term use.