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causation
noun as in cause
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noun as in making
noun as in origin
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noun as in provenience
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- agent
- ancestor
- ancestry
- antecedent
- author
- base
- beginning
- causality
- connection
- creator
- derivation
- determinant
- egg
- element
- embryo
- fount
- fountain
- fountainhead
- generator
- germ
- impulse
- inception
- inducement
- influence
- inspiration
- mainspring
- mother
- motive
- nucleus
- occasion
- parent
- parentage
- principle
- producer
- progenitor
- provenance
- root
- roots
- rootstock
- seed
- source
- spring
- stock
- well
- wellspring
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noun as in rootstock
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- agent
- ancestor
- ancestry
- antecedent
- author
- base
- beginning
- causality
- connection
- creator
- derivation
- determinant
- egg
- element
- embryo
- fount
- fountain
- fountainhead
- generator
- germ
- impulse
- inception
- inducement
- influence
- inspiration
- mainspring
- mother
- motive
- nucleus
- occasion
- parent
- parentage
- principle
- producer
- progenitor
- provenance
- provenience
- root
- roots
- seed
- source
- spring
- stock
- well
- wellspring
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Example Sentences
“The plaintiffs have to prove the causation aspect,” Shapiro told The Daily Beast.
However, association does not mean causation, and this is very important for the woman to understand.
The aforementioned surveys may not be sufficient to make any firm conclusions about correlation, and much less about causation.
The new study sees a correlation—and suggests a causation—between sexting and sex, but the conclusions researchers draw are vague.
For one thing, the Redskins Rule reveals correlation, not causation.
It is in this way that most of those uniformities of succession are generated, which are not cases of causation.
That the effect may be frustrated, is, therefore, no objection to the universality of laws of causation.
It deserves remark, that these early generalizations did not, like scientific inductions, presuppose causation.
The theist, in short, commences with a wrong conception of causation.
This is not the place in which to enter on an exhaustive inquiry as to the nature of causation.
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On this page you'll find 247 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to causation, such as: element, explanation, matter, motivation, motive, and origin.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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