as in cause
someone or something responsible for a result
a supreme being is a being that, by definition, has no causality of its own
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Recent Examples of causality
This debate will clearly go on for some time, and disentangling causality is difficult.
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Andrew Prokop, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
That recognition has spawned numerous studies, some of them surprisingly serious, to test the limits of causality.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
With that high-stakes user in mind, Elicit clearly shows users claims of causality and the evidence that supports them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2024
But its pitfalls are well known, the most obvious being the problem of determining causality when the effects of certain variables are very small and predictions are therefore hard to make with confidence.
—Nell Irvin Painter, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019
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Andrew Prokop, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
That recognition has spawned numerous studies, some of them surprisingly serious, to test the limits of causality.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
With that high-stakes user in mind, Elicit clearly shows users claims of causality and the evidence that supports them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2024
But its pitfalls are well known, the most obvious being the problem of determining causality when the effects of certain variables are very small and predictions are therefore hard to make with confidence.
—Nell Irvin Painter, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019
See all Example Sentences for causality
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“Causality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/causality. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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