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theprocessofcausingsomething tohappenorexist 因果过程;因果关系SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesCausing things to happen - -induced
- activate
- activation
- actuation
- agent
- attribute
- attributesomethingtosomeone
- in
- inaugurate
- inauguration
- instate
- pioneer
- realization
- realize
- reattribute
- reawaken
- reimpose
- render
- seed
- spark
See more results » (Definition ofcausationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)- Causes.—Upon the causation of contraction a very great deal has been written, both by early veterinarians and by those of the present day.
- Similarly, if the word 'force' is sometimes used for convenience in analysing causation, it means nothing more than something in time and space, itself moving, or tending to move, or hindering or accelerating other things.
- The causation of material changes in the liquid sphere would in fact be all that these three kinds of ether could achieve together.
- This at once suggests two of the principal factors in their causation—namely, concussion and loss of normal function.
- This is a very important rule in scientific investigation, since it enables us to detect the presence of causation.
Examplesofcausationcausation Functionalist analyses of representations as making irreducible differences to behavior are piecemeal vindications of the scientific significance of oldfashioned agentcausation.From theCambridge English Corpus This is more about whose history is being constructed and told, and howcausationis attributed.From theCambridge English Corpus Determiningcausationin the relationships between declining glycogen levels, spontaneous detailing, survival and infectivity is intrinsically difficult.From theCambridge English Corpus Event con-ation concerns the grammatical possibilities for relating various components of events such as location, movement, manner, temporality, andcausation.From theCambridge English Corpus Since theistic uses of the concept ofcausationdo not, he charges them with being unintelligible.From theCambridge English Corpus Furthermore, even for scholars who are dubious about the prospects for generalization or uninterested in its pursuit, theoretical explorations of historicalcausationremain important.From theCambridge English Corpus It might occasionally be the case that we humans can understand where the evolution of the universe is taking us only by using future-to-pastcausation.From theCambridge English Corpus An urgent question, if we want to analyzecausationin terms of the dependence of whether one event occurs on whether another event occurs.From theCambridge English Corpus One might suspect that any theory positing such overdetermination fails to vindicate mentalcausation, since mental causes continue to appear in some sense redundant.From theCambridge English Corpus These rules are sensitive to semantic notions like change of state, directcausation, affectedness, and the like.From theCambridge English Corpus In any case, it is a notable feature of the current methodological ferment thatcausationhas re-entered the discourse of social science.From theCambridge English Corpus An alternative materialist account of resurrection is offered, one in which immanentcausationis not necessary.From theCambridge English Corpus However, to a certain extent, they also express a 'causationof existence'.From theCambridge English Corpus Some writers in the mechanismic school appear to take the position that, without supporting evidence at the micro-foundational level,causationhas not been proven.From theCambridge English Corpus Such situations exist in a highly probabalistic environment where the traditional linear rules ofcausationdo not apply.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/causation## |