causal connection

collocation in English

meaningsofcausalandconnection

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causal
adjective
uk
/ˈkɔː.zəl/
us
/ˈkɑː.zəl/
a relationship, link, etc. between two things in which one causes ...
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connection
noun
uk
/kəˈnek.ʃən/
us
/kəˈnek.ʃən/
the state of being related to someone or ...
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(Definition ofcausalandconnectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcausal connection

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Of course, this is not acausalconnection.
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Finally, it is plausible in our view that there is no directcausalconnectionbetween parental strategies and children's assumptions.
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First, we investigate thecausalconnectionbetween electoral law and disproportionality, taking particular account of the national-district aggregation problem.
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First, despite great progress, aspects of thecausalconnectionbetween electoral systems and vote-seat disproportionality remain obscure.
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Otherwise, there may be other, equally plausible explanations, for thecausalconnection.
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The assertion of a high levelcausalconnectionbetween such things is bound to be pretty unconvincing taken by itself.
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This means that people experience conscious will quite independent of any actualcausalconnectionbetween their thoughts and actions.
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Thecausalconnectionbetween the social, etc., causes and their conceptual results were declared to be a law of nature.
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If there were nocausalconnection, we would have a case not of persistence but of replacement by a duplicate.
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Given thecausalconnectionof this hypothesis with fly developmental patterns, this relationship may be non-linear.
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The thought would be irrelevant to what had happened, and you would see nocausalconnection.
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Categorizing sounds and learning to read + acausalconnection.
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They depend for their value on theircausalconnectionwith the culmination outcomes they aim for.
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I argued above that their value is contingent on the choice act having somecausalconnectionto relevant culmination outcomes.
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Our experiences of will, in other words, often do correspond correctly with the empirical will, the actualcausalconnectionbetween our thought and action.
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Proving acausalconnectionbetween activities and improved health is even more difficult.
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He points to acausalconnectionbetween communal investment in medicine, and the recognition of medical care as a need.
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