Sentence examples for causation and consequence from inspiring English sources

Our culture's fundamental belief in causation and consequence, to say nothing of free will, does not easily accept the suggestion of helplessness, or of some kind of as yet unidentified exogenous force.

It could be exhilarating to take on the welter of causation and consequence, but clarity was fleeting, more of a mood than an all-encompassing grasp; there must be an endorphin that's triggered by the call-and-response recapitulation of a giant variegated clusterfuck.

Airway obstruction may result from altered anatomy following difficult or prolonged intubation [ 3]; inadequate ventilation may be a consequence of deconditioning after prolonged immobility, or an imbalance between the energy supply and demand and technical challenges or physiologic disturbances of varied causation and consequence.

Her role in the act's passage was suggested by her words that day and her deeds leading up to it, including her announcing last year a presidential commission's findings on the depth, causation and consequences of the problem.

Given its importance, further investigations are called for to understand the causation and consequences of the synergistic interaction between inbreeding and stress.

They review empirical evidence for several mechanisms underpinning this unfortunate synergy, but also call for more research aimed at dissecting its causation and consequences.

The frailty model proposed by Fried et al. is one of the most frequently used and seems of particular interest for research since it integrates a description of a measurable frailty phenotype within a theoretical concept of causation, manifestations and consequences [ 14, 15].

Even so, in metaphysics and physics, we speak of genera and species; in logic, of antecedents and consequences; in causation and metaphysics more broadly, of privations; and in many walks of life, of non-existent entities, often enough innocently imputing causal profiles to them.

To distinguish physician-assisted death from allowing a patient to die by deactivation of an LVAD, we evaluate pathophysiological consequences, intention, causation, and moral responsibility for the ensuing death after discontinuation of such a medical device.

The earliest discussion of some of the consequences for backward causation and free will can be found in George Schlesinger (1974) and in an exchange between Don Locke (1978, 1979) and André Gallois (1979).

It is widely acknowledged that Mayr was ambiguous over the meaning of ultimate causation, and the resulting literature is confused as a consequence.