For one, there's "the delusion of correlation and causality"–the mistaken idea that one thing leads to another.
Causality — the relation between cause and effect — would be affected.
By lining up his chapters in chronological order, Zemmour creates the illusion of causality: the 1968 protests preceded de Gaulle's death, and therefore the students killed de Gaulle.
The assembled experts, academics and journalists more distinguished than myself disagreed over causality, the effectiveness of sanctions, their morality and most of all what they were trying to achieve.
Regardless of causality, the apparent clustering of common traits within residential neighbourhoods suggests that in shared public spaces, too, we might identify dominant urges and goals to which the city can respond.
But, if one assumes causality, "the current consumption of sugar sweetened beverages was estimated to cause approximately 2m excess events of type 2 diabetes in the USA and 80,000 in the UK over 10 years.
"While the data from these observational studies do not establish causality, the association between estrogen use and ovarian cancer should be worrisome enough for clinicians to consider carefully whether to suggest estrogen-only" hormone replacement therapy, Dr. Noller said.
While this is largely true for conventional pollutants, he leaves off an important causality: the relationship between wealth and a clean environment is due to populations having more time to push their governments to clean up local pollutants.
Fait divers also have a "deranged" causality — the cause given for an event is not necessarily the right one — and they have an enigmatic tone, deflecting tragedy with a subtle humor.
In its uncounted hours of conversation, "Please, Mr. Einstein" touches down lightly and charmingly on some of the thorniest philosophical consequences of Einstein's genius and, by extension, the scientific preoccupations of the 20th century — the nature of reality, the fate of causality, the comprehensibility of nature, the limits of the mind — while scrolling through Einstein's life.
But both the historical record and current comparisons suggest a different causality: The growth of individual wage employment weakened the family as an economic unit and left those with many dependents especially vulnerable.
