Sentence examples for causal statement from inspiring English sources

This important distinction allows us to better understand what relationships are being defined by any causal statement.

However, two factors prevent being able to make a definitive causal statement about the change in Californian performance due to Prop 209.

Thus, the first causal statement should be interpreted as saying that Jones's putting potassium salts in the fire rather not doing so caused the flame to turn purple rather than yellow; but the second causal statement should be interpreted as saying that the purple fire's occurring rather than not occurring caused the flammable material to ignite rather not to ignite.

For example, Maslen (2004), who endorses the contrast-relativity of causal statements, has argued that this example is misdiagnosed as a counterexample to transitivity, as the contrast situation at the effect-end of the first causal statement does not match up with the contrast situation at the cause-end of the second causal statement.

Rather the appropriate causal statement will be one that says the camper's lighting the fire (in some or other location) rather his not lighting it (in any location) caused the fire to occur rather than not to occur.

Any causal statement about the universe would have to be expressed atemporally, but for the theist this presents no problem provided that God is conceived atemporally and sense can be made of atemporal causation.

The moral judgments and causal statements in historical writing are also criticized as vague, but they may be precise enough for ambiguous situations, where moral responsibility may be distributed among a number of agents or the precise relationship between causes and preconditions is tangled.

Instead, blanket causal statements are made without any further explanation.

Causal statements in the social and behavioral sciences usually have to be interpreted as ceteris paribus statements.

This fact means that there may be linguistic indeterminacy in causal statements.

Such causal statements reveal the relevant contrasts at both the cause- and the effect-ends.