Sentence examples for sufficient causal from inspiring English sources

We might think that when we say that someone could have gone to Boston instead of staying in Providence, what we mean is merely that at some earlier time this morning, his trip to Boston was causally indeterminate — there was no sufficient causal condition either for his going to Boston or for his not going to Boston.

The District Court also should consider whether plaintiffs have established a sufficient causal connection between Microsoft's anticompetitive conduct and its dominant position in the OS market.

The relevant sufficient causal condition would not have arisen until the person lying in wait in Chelmsford had freely interfered.

(There is also no event or state that is a sufficient causal condition for his failing to do it, obviously).

In order to be valid, "sufficient causal condition" must be used in the same sense throughout the argument.

Scotus's argument is firmly rooted in the theistic intuition that God's creative volition is the necessary and sufficient causal condition of everything that exists outside him.

Another account of 'could have done otherwise' makes use of the concept of sufficient antecedent causal condition.

Although one may try to answer this question by appealing to other causes (say, z's causing x to cause y), the PSR also demands an account of what it is in virtue of which x and y are causally related, as opposed to being merely sequentially ordered (or an account of why mere sequential ordering is sufficient for causal relatedness).

Typically, no single piece of evidence is necessary or sufficient for causal inference in complex disease research.

For example, if two combinations of conditions are found to be sufficient, one with causal conditions A, B, and C and the other with causal conditions A and B (but not C), we could reduce this to one configuration: AB, since the outcome occurs whether condition C is present or absent.

She aimed to show that reliance on regularities and frequencies on which probability judgments can be based are not sufficient for representing causal relations.