Sentence examples for causation not from inspiring English sources

Moreover, he was 'awoken from his dogmatic slumbers' by reading Hume, though Kant is referring here to Hume's attack on causation, not his ethical theory (Prolegomena, 4 260).

Occasionalism denies causation not only among finite substances, and so rules out any inflow between cause and effect, but also within finite substances.

(As we shall see shortly, Lewis's official definition of causation differs from it, as he defines causation not in terms of causal dependence directly, but in terms of chains of causal dependence).

A view of this kind (which is close to Davidson's as spelled out in §5 and to the identity solutions discussed in §6.5) would endeavor to resolve the problem of mental causation, not by tinkering with the causal concept, but by rejecting the idea that mental and physical properties are distinct kinds of property.

Epel said that this was the first time that an association between sugary drinks and the shortening of telomeres has been made, and was quick to emphasize that the linkage shouldn't be confused with causation — not at this stage of the research, anyway.

Management causation not likely; less than 50/50 but close call.

"Because the essential element of causation was not proved for both counts.

Aquinas argued that the observable order of causation is not self-explanatory.

Causation does not involve determination, or necessity.

Patterns of causation do not reflect processes of evaluation.

On this account, causation is not constituted by causal dependence.