causation

We like to think our lives are ordered by easily understood causation, a chain of big, identifiable things connected by logic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The authors also note that reverse causation is possible, meaning healthier people may simply be more able to attend cultural events.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

While they identified a relationship between food insufficiency and sports gambling, they noted that direct causation for such a large issue is difficult to establish.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

I was careful not to formally assert the level of causation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

I would single out four: methodology, causation, prediction, and complexity.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The city of L.A. has still not declared an emergency regarding our untenable and inhumane homelessness crisis, nor taken significant steps to address the causations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2021

Deisseroth says his laboratory research informs the psychiatric patient care that he continues to give, yet many of the landmark studies are about causations and chemical pathways in genetically modified mice, not humans.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021

Details of the Arizona tragedy will emerge and provide a fuller picture of the factors and causations.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2011

He is still only taking the first step in the sequence of causations.

From Ways of Nature by John Burroughs

Chronic Inflammation.—A variety of types of chronic and subacute inflammation are met with which, owing to ignorance of their causations, cannot at present be satisfactorily classified.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson