Causation Definition

Causation Sentence Examples

• The series into which we can arrange the results of observing phenomena of complex causation, whether exhibited by living organisms or not, have certain properties in common, which are dealt with by the theory of chance.

• Mill's device rested special inductions of causation upon the laws that every event has a cause, and every cause has always the same effect.

• Lewes censures Renan for asserting of Ghazali's theory of causation - " Hume n'a rien dit plus."

• Trace out the clue of causation to the end, says Hegel in effect, and it introduces you, not to a single first cause beyond nature, but to the totality of natural process - a substance, as it were, in which all causes inhere.

• He discovered that heat is evolved when iron filings and sulphur are rubbed together to a paste with water, and the artificial volcan de Lemery was produced by burying underground a considerable quantity of this mixture, which he regarded as a potent agent in the causation of volcanic action.