Causation

Definitions

1. The act of causing.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act or agency by which an effect is produced.
   countable, uncountable
3. Cause and effect, considered as a system.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Aristotle's views led him to try⟳ to describe⟳ the kind of causation by which vision is produced, instead of the laws by which it is exercised; and the attempt⟳ consisted, as in other subjects, of indistinct principles, and ill-combined facts.”

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