causation
nounUK /kɔːˈzeɪ.ʃən/ · US /kɔˈzeɪ.ʃən/
Etymology From cause + -ation.
1
The act of causing.
2
The act or agency by which an effect is produced.
- Aristotle's views led him to try to describe the kind of causation by which vision is produced, instead of the laws by which it is exercised; and the attempt consisted, as in other subjects, of indistinct principles, and ill-combined facts.1837, William Whewell, “Earliest Stages of Optics”, in History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Times. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: J. and J. J. Deighton, →OCLC, book II (History of the Physical Sciences in Ancient Greece), page 100:
3
Cause and effect.
- Derived terms
- causational, causationism, causationist, noncausation, reverse causation