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“Like many studies that seek to implicate specific microbiome signatures with particular conditions in humans, as yet the work mostly reveals correlations rather than causality,” said Barrett.

The results, while promising, were coming from trials that lacked the statistical guardrails that help scientists sort coincidence from causality.

There are also more restrictive, smaller boundaries of causality or exploration.

This means any event will have multiple mismatched light cones — in short, causality is indefinite.

All the papers about the quantum switch nod at the link between quantum gravity and indefinite causality.

But then, if a clear line of causality could be traced, we wouldn't be talking about Palmer.

The authors of the study made this clear, writing that the results were “not determined to show causality.”

Of course causality runs both ways; countries in trouble are more likely to get into a debt crisis.

Those statements are both true but they are not proof of causality, either.

Given the way some of these situations have played out, causality hardly seems important.

Causality there remains an empty name without promise of a real explanation.

Their existence is therefore due to the divine causality, which never changes.

This innate need for explanation is then usually associated with an alleged a priori principle of causality inherent in the mind.

If we would speak of causality at all on his level of experience, we may say only that he is governed by the causality of magic.

Scientific reasoning and scientific observation can only hold good so long and in so far as the Law of Causality holds good.

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On this page you'll find 170 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to causality, such as: ancestor, ancestry, connection, element, influence, and motive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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