Causation Meaning
/kɔːˈzeɪ.ʃən/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of causing.
nounThe act or agency by which an effect is produced.
Sentence Examples
Correlation does not imply causation.
Correlation does not equal causation.
Researchers tried to prove a direct causation between the two events.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The court required proof of ____, not just correlation, to determine liability.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Correlation does not always mean ____, as many researchers know city.
Word Origin & History
From cause + -ation.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1837, William Whewell, “Earliest Stages of Optics”, in History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Times. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: J. and J. J. Deighton, →OCLC, book II (History of the Physical Sciences in Ancient Greece), page 100:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The court required proof of ____, not just correlation, to determine liability.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Correlation does not always mean ____, as many researchers know city.