Sentence examples for be a causal connection from inspiring English sources

Presumably, such beliefs, inferences, and expectations would have little or no adaptive value for human beings in their dealings with hippopotamuses; hence, calling a hippopotamus a cow on a dark night is a mistake though there would, of course, be a causal connection between the animal and the word in that situation.

There must be a causal connection between them, but do ideas cause impressions or do impressions cause ideas?

"[S]tress predicted the level of emotion differentiation of the next day, but emotion differentiation did not predict stress on the next day," the authors write, which suggests that there might be a causal connection.

Then for an event or process M to qualify as a manipulation of X, it would appear that there must be a causal connection between M and X: to manipulate X, one must cause it to change in value.

There may be a causal connection between the occurrence of the "pain" brain event and the occurrence of the "belief" brain event, or vice versa, but even if the causal connection holds it will be a contingent fact that it does.

As we could demonstrate that BV in early pregnancy is more common among women who have stopped smoking compared to women who had never smoked, there might be a causal connection between BV and smoking.

But the idea that there's a causal connection between things like sexual permissiveness and social harm is obviously fatuous.

But we still wonder to this day whether there was a causal connection between my husband's vigilance and the surgeon's collapse.

And though there are associations between various forms of inflammatory disease — for example, people with psoriasis or periodontal disease have a somewhat higher risk of heart disease — it has not been proved that there is a causal connection.

"That is enough to say that, for all practical purposes, there is a causal connection between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer and it is the same with climate change," Mann said.

Conclusion: The prevalence of a number of symptoms differed significantly between age groups, but we cannot infer that there is a causal connection between an average age-dependent decline in testosterone function and these symptoms.