Sentence examples for the issue of causation from inspiring English sources

So far, I haven't mentioned the issue of causation.

The reason I'm hesitating a bit before simply declaring trade the culprit is the issue of causation, and the related issue of whether those deficits are likely to persist.

James L. Connaughton, head of the United States Council on Environmental Quality, was quoted in "Climate Change Is Called Economic Threat at Talks" (news article, March 16) as saying, "We are still working on the issue of causation, the extent to which humans are a factor" in global climate change.

The issue of causation must also be considered, that is, the question of whether participating in national French master swimming competitions promotes reduced obesity and lowers associated health risks or whether individuals with a lower BMI participate in master swimming championships by preference.

To begin, Mackie (1974) situates the issue of causation in the context of a modified form of the counterfactual conditional statement if X causes Y, then this means that X occurred and Y occurred, and Y would not have occurred if X had not.

34 The major limitation of this study was the cross-sectional design that precluded addressing the issue of causation.

Today, Sir John Thomas, president of the Queen's Bench Division, and Mr Justice Silber upheld their challenge and transferred the case to another branch of the court to consider the issues of causation and damages.

Yes, but that's where the issue of reverse causation comes in.

Finally, while they acknowledge the issue of reverse causation, they seem very much to be trying to have it both ways — saying yes, we know about the issue, but then immediately reverting to talking as if debt was necessarily causing slow growth rather than the other way around.

To address the issue of reverse causation, these top-down fiscal policy measures are instrumented using the variables normally used in the estimation of fiscal policy determinants by means of "fiscal reaction functions" (e.g., Bohn, 1998; Gali and Perotti, 2003).

Genetic considerations emphasize the issue of incomplete causation.