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causality

[kaw-zal-i-tee]

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noun, plural -ties.

the relation of cause and effect: The result is the same, however differently the causality is interpreted.

causal quality or agency.

Origin:
1595–1605; causal + -ity

Related forms

non·cau·sal·i·ty, noun

Can be confused: casualty, causality, causation, cause (see synonym note at cause).

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So causality is not being violated, unless you had new laws of physics.

One way to think of it is confusing correlation with causality.

The exact causality can only be speculated at this point but the correlations are robust.

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So causality is not being violated, unless you had new laws of physics.

One way to think of it is confusing correlation with causality.

The exact causality can only be speculated at this point but the correlations are robust.

Harmon for not making statements of causality that the authors of the study did not make.

The amazing thing there is that they can do this without violating causality.

The discerning historian knows that there are levels of causality.

Is it not possible that in some of these cases causality runs the other way:.

But it turns out that computers can learn a lot about causality by reading personal blogs.

If this weren't true then conservation of angular momentum and causality itself wouldn't exist.

McMurtie also sent me a link to a post on correlation and causality in scientific.

They seem to cower at the suggestion of rising action, to blush at the heightened causality that makes a story a story.

Some basic philosophical teaching would be rather useful to enable economists to think about causality with more of an open mind.

There is no correlation coefficient that either proves or disproves causality or anything else.

It's natural for us to arrange pictures from left to right to show chronology or causality.

There is no causality to teach him a sense of his own competence.

Which may merely be coincidence, as opposed to causality.

As a physical principle the law of causality must be abandoned.

Humans and chimps go on the same branch because the chain of causality leads back to a common ancestor.

But observational studies do not demonstrate causality.

One of the biggest problems of empirical economics is the difficulty of distinguishing causality from correlation.

It should be noted that superluminal speeds need not entail causality violations, that is back in time signaling.

Most provocatively, they suggest that the causality might go the other way, with market returns driving presidential elections.

The article doesn't present any evidence to show causality.

Also, the process of sending a message faster than light does not necessarily cause a paradox of causality.

Our physical picture of the largest size scales in the universe is limited by causality.

Even the implied causality behind the market decline isn't entirely clear.

We must remember that these results refer to probabilities, not absolute causality.

But in science, a correlation does not prove causality.

And, of course, there is an issue of causality between exchange rates and the external balance.

The report found likely causality of immune dysfunction, seizures and encephalopathy from some vaccines.

For those who doubt the causality of the study, however, it might do to re-examine the article.

However, the direction of causality between dem ocracy and income is debatable.

Maybe he can find causality that living causes death.

From my own experience, this causality may in fact be outright overt.

Time is a purely artificial construct of man, to measure guage causality.

They find similar correlations, but can't determine the causality either.

To be truely cyclical there has to be some underlying causality that defines the period of the.

We can speculate about the direction of causality between the tempo of life and economic conditions.

In that they now have to test to prove causality and no one has even attempted that yet.

Statistical high correlations are often confused with causality.

It is not ethical to conduct experiments where causality could be identified because this issue involves human suffering.

The fall-out continues but causality is pre the current.

The rest of the article is simply the old causality chestnut, with moral/emotional conflict thrown in for seasoning.

Disparate impact arguments work more clearly in cases of biological rather than social causality.

With all the variables that exist, it is impossible to determine causality.

The great fallacy of science is to make a sweeping generalization of causality based upon an isolated incident.

Because obesity can produce early menarche, the above study's conclusions may simply have causality reversed.

Short term causality is easier to predict than long term.

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World English Dictionary

causality (kɔːˈzælɪtɪ)

—n , pl -ties
1.	a. the relationship of cause and effect
	b. the principle that nothing can happen without being caused
2.	causal agency or quality

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