Sentence examples for cannot be causes from inspiring English sources
Third, not everything can be a cause, and specifically, attributes cannot be causes.
In the context of attributes, all that can be derived are associations, and although associations are important and suggestive of variables that might moderate causal effects, they cannot be causes in the sense of the RCM framework.
Although directed against the Wittgensteinian-inspired view that reasons cannot be causes, Davidson's argument nevertheless effectively redeploys a number of Wittgensteinian notions (see Stoutland 2011, for a sympathetic, but not uncritical, examination of the Davidsonian view of action from a largely Wittgensteinian perspective).
Furthermore, reversals cannot be caused by simple decay and reappearance of a preexisting field.
The timescale for the reversal is so rapid that it clearly cannot be caused by geologic processes.
That the animals put on weight nonetheless suggests the phenomenon cannot be caused solely by pet owners appeasing their Garfields, or feral rats rummaging through refuse composed of ever larger quantities of calorie-rich processed food.
A motion cannot be caused by another motion (as that would lead to perpetual motion).
By design, the county-specific trends cannot be caused by the subsequent minimum-wage increases.
