principle of causality

collocation in English

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principle
noun
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/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens ...
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causality
noun[U]
uk
/kɔːˈzæl.ə.ti/us
/kɑːˈzæl.ə.t̬i/
the principle that there is a cause for everything ...
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(Definition ofprincipleandcausalityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For example, all philosophers accept theprincipleofcausality.
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It would also place the emphasis on theprincipleofcausalityrather than liability in terms of settlements between insurance companies.
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Even for tachyonic quantum fields, the field operators at space-like separated points still commute (or anticommute), thus preserving theprincipleofcausality.
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This also applies to theprincipleofcausalityitself, since "everything" is dependently originated.
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Are there exceptions to theprincipleofcausality?
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Consequently, the relativisticprincipleofcausalitysays that the cause must precede its effect "according to all inertial observers".
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Theprincipleofcausalitystates that every event has a cause; for instance, everything that begins to exist must have a cause.
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The ability to do this kind of learning is hardwired in our brain and is based on theprincipleofcausality.
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Thus, for the scientist, reality is explored as an evolutionary system of diverse entities, the order of which is determined by theprincipleofcausality.
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Any such moving object or signal would violate theprincipleofcausality.
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His most-important fourth, theprincipleofcausalityis based on the finite velocity of propagation of effects and signals; contemporary physics rejects the possibility of instantaneous action at a distance.
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Thus, theprincipleofcausalityis preserved.
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It is a classification submitted to the constraints of the principles of causality.
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Church discussed practices that conveyed the management accounting principles of causality and analogy but never formally defined them.
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