Causal
adjective
Relating to or showing the cause of something.
There's a causal link between smoking and lung cancer.
Often appears as...
- causal relationship
- causal connection
adjective
Being the real reason something happened.
In this philosophical argument, we need to understand the causal agent to understand the end effect.
Often appears as...
- causal agent
- causal factor
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Academic
adjective
Relating to or showing the cause of something.
There's a causal link between smoking and lung cancer.
Often appears as...
- causal relationship
- causal connection
adjective
Being the real reason something happened.
In this philosophical argument, we need to understand the causal agent to understand the end effect.
Often appears as...
- causal agent
- causal factor
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Causation Evidence
Use 'causal' to describe a proven or strongly suspected link between two events or conditions.
The study highlighted a causal relationship between poor diet and health problems.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Coincidental
'Causal' implies more than coincidence; it suggests one thing is the result of another.
They found a causal connection between stress levels and absenteeism at work.
Pro Tip 3/3Scientific Discussions
'Causal' is often used in scientific and medical research to discuss why or how something happens.
Researchers debate the causal mechanisms behind climate change.
Pro Tip 1/3Causation Evidence
Use 'causal' to describe a proven or strongly suspected link between two events or conditions.
The study highlighted a causal relationship between poor diet and health problems.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Coincidental
'Causal' implies more than coincidence; it suggests one thing is the result of another.
They found a causal connection between stress levels and absenteeism at work.
Pro Tip 3/3Scientific Discussions
'Causal' is often used in scientific and medical research to discuss why or how something happens.
Researchers debate the causal mechanisms behind climate change.
Pro Tip 1/3Causation Evidence
Use 'causal' to describe a proven or strongly suspected link between two events or conditions.
The study highlighted a causal relationship between poor diet and health problems.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Coincidental
'Causal' implies more than coincidence; it suggests one thing is the result of another.
They found a causal connection between stress levels and absenteeism at work.
Pro Tip 3/3Scientific Discussions
'Causal' is often used in scientific and medical research to discuss why or how something happens.
Researchers debate the causal mechanisms behind climate change.
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John Searle: Our shared...
and that's how nature works. That's how it's possible for consciousness to function causally. Okay, now with that in mind, with going through these various features of consciousness, let's go back and answer some of those early objections. Well, the first one I said was, consciousness doesn't exist,
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The new era of positive...
Each of them is in a romantic relationship and each has a rich repertoire of friends. But watch out here -- this is merely correlational data, not causal, and it's about happiness in the first, "Hollywood" sense, I'm going to talk about, happiness of ebullience and giggling and good cheer.
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Laura Schulz: The...
One is about a problem of generalization, and the other is about a problem of causal reasoning. And although I'm going to talk about work in my lab, this work is inspired by and indebted to a field. I'm grateful to mentors, colleagues, and collaborators around the world.
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Feedback loops: How...
is a phenomenon called mutual causal interaction, where x affects y, y affects x, and so on, creating an ongoing process called a feedback loop. And the natural world is full of these mechanisms formed by the links between living and nonliving things
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How economic inequality...
Correlation in itself doesn't prove causality. We spend a good bit of time. And indeed, people know the causal links quite well in some of these outcomes. The big change in our understanding of drivers of chronic health in the rich developed world
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Diagnosing a zombie:...
That's why working with people with brain lesions is so important to neuroscience. It adds some causal evidence that a brain area might be required for a behavior. Same with brain simulation studies. If stimulating a brain area causes a behavior,
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David Deutsch: Chemical...
This chemical scum has universality. Its structure contains, with ever-increasing precision, the structure of everything. This place, and not other places in the universe, is a hub which contains within itself the structural and causal essence
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SC Finalist PIPE National...
the great golf courses and the amazing beaches also you can always feel our great southern hospitality in the great seafood we give and the beautiful places with the smiling face bippity gardens is a causal inside my school at liberty
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Susan Savage-Rumbaugh:...
But I don't think that we were that way initially. There are many people who think that the animal world is hard-wired and that there's something very, very special about man. Maybe it's his ability to have causal thought.
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Do we see reality as it...
and is nothing like a brain or neurons. And that reality, whatever it is, is the real source of cause and effect in the world -- not brains, not neurons. Brains and neurons have no causal powers.
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John Searle: Our shared...
and that's how nature works. That's how it's possible for consciousness to function causally. Okay, now with that in mind, with going through these various features of consciousness, let's go back and answer some of those early objections. Well, the first one I said was, consciousness doesn't exist,
Video examples
The new era of positive...
Each of them is in a romantic relationship and each has a rich repertoire of friends. But watch out here -- this is merely correlational data, not causal, and it's about happiness in the first, "Hollywood" sense, I'm going to talk about, happiness of ebullience and giggling and good cheer.
Video examples
Laura Schulz: The...
One is about a problem of generalization, and the other is about a problem of causal reasoning. And although I'm going to talk about work in my lab, this work is inspired by and indebted to a field. I'm grateful to mentors, colleagues, and collaborators around the world.
Video examples
Feedback loops: How...
is a phenomenon called mutual causal interaction, where x affects y, y affects x, and so on, creating an ongoing process called a feedback loop. And the natural world is full of these mechanisms formed by the links between living and nonliving things
Video examples
How economic inequality...
Correlation in itself doesn't prove causality. We spend a good bit of time. And indeed, people know the causal links quite well in some of these outcomes. The big change in our understanding of drivers of chronic health in the rich developed world
Video examples
Diagnosing a zombie:...
That's why working with people with brain lesions is so important to neuroscience. It adds some causal evidence that a brain area might be required for a behavior. Same with brain simulation studies. If stimulating a brain area causes a behavior,
Video examples
David Deutsch: Chemical...
This chemical scum has universality. Its structure contains, with ever-increasing precision, the structure of everything. This place, and not other places in the universe, is a hub which contains within itself the structural and causal essence
Video examples
SC Finalist PIPE National...
the great golf courses and the amazing beaches also you can always feel our great southern hospitality in the great seafood we give and the beautiful places with the smiling face bippity gardens is a causal inside my school at liberty
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Susan Savage-Rumbaugh:...
But I don't think that we were that way initially. There are many people who think that the animal world is hard-wired and that there's something very, very special about man. Maybe it's his ability to have causal thought.
Video examples
Do we see reality as it...
and is nothing like a brain or neurons. And that reality, whatever it is, is the real source of cause and effect in the world -- not brains, not neurons. Brains and neurons have no causal powers.
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Robin Marantz Henig
Writer
Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions.
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Emily Oster
American Economist
Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health.
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Jean Piaget
Swiss Psychologist
From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time.
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Paramahansa Yogananda
Indian Leader
When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.
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Ernst Haeckel
German Scientist
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
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Michael Shermer
Writer
We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.
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Hans Jonas
German Philosopher
For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
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Dominic Cummings
British Public Servant
Judea Pearl is one of the most important scholars in the field of causal reasoning. His book 'Causality' is the leading textbook in the field.
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Max Weber
German Economist
Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.
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Robert Zubrin
American Scientist
The relationship between carbon consumption and human well-being is causal, not coincidental.
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Robin Marantz Henig
Writer
Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions.
Quote examples
Emily Oster
American Economist
Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health.
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Jean Piaget
Swiss Psychologist
From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time.
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Paramahansa Yogananda
Indian Leader
When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.
Quote examples
Ernst Haeckel
German Scientist
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
Quote examples
Michael Shermer
Writer
We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.
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Hans Jonas
German Philosopher
For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
Quote examples
Dominic Cummings
British Public Servant
Judea Pearl is one of the most important scholars in the field of causal reasoning. His book 'Causality' is the leading textbook in the field.
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Max Weber
German Economist
Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.
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Robert Zubrin
American Scientist
The relationship between carbon consumption and human well-being is causal, not coincidental.
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