notion of causality
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnotionandcausality
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notion
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈnəʊ.ʃən/us/ˈnoʊ.ʃən/
a belief ...
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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 ofnotionandcausalityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Their formalisation implicitly assumes that logical implication provides a suitable axiomatisation of thenotionofcausality.
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We do not claim that this property formalises causality; it only expresses thenotionofcausalityin terms of diagnosis.
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Note that thenotionofcausalityis expressed in the theory using logical implication.
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But the reasons he was conscious of, the reasons he professed to have, were always related to various aspects of the thicknotionofcausality.
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Thisnotionofcausalityis intuitive rather than formal.
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Starting off with a very thicknotionofcausality, we reach a point at which causality itself has become a matter of interpretation.
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Future research needs to explore further thenotionofcausalityoutlined in this paper.
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Natural scientists tend to use the word sparingly, although it can be argued that somenotionofcausalityunderlies most of their efforts to understand the physical and biological world.
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Anscombe makes two points in her attempt to distance thenotionofcausalityfrom that of determination.
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Fortunately, there is a relatively painless way of dealing with these issues without re-opening philosophical debates, and this is done by treating thenotionofcausalitywith more care.
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Allen's statement (p. 108) that the 'notionofcausalityand the exact structure of the causative seem to be mastered ' is based on examples from different ages.
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Relativity, which still preserves thenotionofcausalityand invariant objective reality, belongs to the prerevolutionary past; it is quantum theory that opens a genuinely new era.
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He has published on the methodology of the social sciences, including thenotionofcausality.
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This corresponds to the physicalnotionofcausalitythat spatially separated space-time points do not interact.
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He understood that the interconnectedness of varying forces in the universe is so vast and innumerable that thenotionofcausality, as presently understood, is wasted.
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However, only the transitive nature of logical implication seems to meet the properties of causality; the re-exive and contrapositive properties of implication will not hold for all notions of causality.
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As with all forms of magical thinking, association-based and similarity-based notions of causality are not always said to be the practice of magic by a magician.
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