causal relation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcausalandrelation
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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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relation
noun
uk/rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/us/rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/
the way in which two people or groups of people feel and behave towards ...
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(Definition ofcausalandrelationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This rule gives rise to acausalrelationamong memories.
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Tool making is adapted to materials at hand (causalrelation1), and planned function (causalrelation 2), making the best tool for that particular situation.
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However, proponents of truth-making stress that the truth-making relation isn't acausalrelation.
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It is hard to see how that identification can be a discovery about thecausalrelation.
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Not every determination relation is acausalrelation, but (arguably) some are.
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I leave thecausalrelationreferred to in clause (4) unspecified.
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Several different processes have been articulated to account for thiscausalrelation.
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The symbolic relation is primary; it cannot be reduced to the presence of things, or to acausalrelation.
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Evidence from intervention programs on reading suggests acausalrelationbetween experience with books and language acquisition.
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The first postulates acausalrelationbetween the two factors and will be referred to as the social causation model.
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She left the party because it was getting late (11b) most likely reports acausalrelationestablished by the protagonist.
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A 'test' for the two types has to do with whether thecausalrelationis compatible with various focusing strategies.
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According to them, the "programming for" relation provides "causally relevant information" but is not itself acausalrelation.
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The experience of conscious will thus is not direct evidence of acausalrelationbetween thought and action.
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Furthermore, the assumption underlying this study is that there is acausalrelationbetween stroke and mental healthcare problems.
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All parties to the debate agree that perceptual experience involves acausalrelationbetween experience and its object.
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The first of these hypotheses, spurious correlation, just is the nonexistence of the initially hypothesizedcausalrelation.
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Transactional models of human development emphasize the bidirectional necessity of thecausalrelation between social-cognitive processing and interpersonal behavior.
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Second, thecausalrelationbetween these constructs may flow in the other direction, or, more likely, be reciprocal.
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Much of this validation came from an implicit, and often explicit, acknowledgment of acausalrelation between well-crafted cookery advice writing and high-quality fiction writing.
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When good acts deserve reward and evil acts punishment, it as though these acts stood in acausalrelationto the subsequent effects.
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It warrants a more extensive environmental study in this part of the world to examine the possible links incausalrelation.
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The path analyses in this paper were conducted to test thecausalrelationbetween these possible mediational processes and developmental outcomes.
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Furthermore, if thecausalrelationis to be asymmetrical, we can't have two events or states of affairs being causally dependent on each other.
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Many applications simply formulate an explanation as a prediction, apply corresponding learning methods and take the prediction model as acausalrelation.
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