"causal form" is a correct and usable term in written English.
It refers to the grammatical structure or verb form that indicates cause and effect in a sentence. One example of using "causal form" in a sentence could be: "The use of 'because' as a subordinating conjunction in this sentence indicates the causal form, showing the reason for the action being described."
In the first case, the conception of causality could be more complex: in this complex causal form, the fact that some adaptive trait is "needed" is not sufficient to explain its development; need is essential in explaining adaptive development, but by itself it does not cause (that is necessitate) the individual to change.
Before we discuss instances of these in the literature, let us see another causal form that a need-based explanation takes in the student's thinking.
Due to the causal form of the potential, where the time-0 spike, ω k ( 0 ), is multiplied by a function of the past ω − ∞ − 1, the polynomial expansion does not contain monomials of the form ω k 1 ( 0 ) ⋯ ω k r ( 0 ), r > 1 (the corresponding coefficient λ vanishes).
Perhaps with chaos explanation we should either search for a process yielding the "stretching and folding" in the dynamics (causal form of explanation) or we should search for the common properties such behavior exhibits (unification form of explanation) underlying the behavior of the nonlinear systems of interest.
"…organisms are the nexus of a very large number of weakly determining causal forms, and are subjected to stochastic uncertainty.
The explanatory perception of necessity, however, could assume a variety of causal forms in the student's explanations.
The explanatory conception of the "necessitating necessity" manifests itself in various causal forms in the student's explanation of various situations.
Reasons provide an autonomous, non-causal form of explanation.
By contrast, Graham Nerlich, 1979 is in rough agreement with Salmon about what counts as a causal explanation, but holds that there is an important non-causal form of explanation which he calls geometrical explanation for example, the explanation of the trajectories of free particles in gravitational field by reference to the affine structure of space-time.
Again, to the extent that there are non-causal forms of explanation, explanation will remain a topic that is at least somewhat independent of causation.
Whether one accepts this assessment will depend in part on whether one thinks that there are non-causal forms of why-explanation (in the broad and vague sense of why-explanation gestured at in Section 1).
