| 词汇 | causation |
| 释义 | causation noun[ U ] formaluk /kɔːˈzeɪ.ʃən/ us /kɑːˈzeɪ.ʃən/ the process of causing something to happen or exist因果过程；因果关系 Causing things to happen activation actuation agent attribute attribute something to someone hyperstimulate hyperstimulation implement implementation in launch pad prompt put someone to somethingidiom Pygmalion effect reactivate realization realize render spark spell Causes.—Upon the causation of contraction a very great deal has been written, both by early veterinarians and by those of the present day. Similarly, if the word 'force' is sometimes used for convenience in analysing causation, it means nothing more than something in time and space, itself moving, or tending to move, or hindering or accelerating other things. The causation of material changes in the liquid sphere would in fact be all that these three kinds of ether could achieve together. This at once suggests two of the principal factors in their causation—namely, concussion and loss of normal function. This is a very important rule in scientific investigation, since it enables us to detect the presence of causation. Examples of causationcausation Functionalist analyses of representations as making irreducible differences to behavior are piecemeal vindications of the scientific significance of oldfashioned agent causation. This is more about whose history is being constructed and told, and how causation is attributed. Determining causation in the relationships between declining glycogen levels, spontaneous detailing, survival and infectivity is intrinsically difficult. Event con-ation concerns the grammatical possibilities for relating various components of events such as location, movement, manner, temporality, and causation. Since theistic uses of the concept of causation do not, he charges them with being unintelligible. Furthermore, even for scholars who are dubious about the prospects for generalization or uninterested in its pursuit, theoretical explorations of historical causation remain important. It might occasionally be the case that we humans can understand where the evolution of the universe is taking us only by using future-to-past causation. An urgent question, if we want to analyze causation in terms of the dependence of whether one event occurs on whether another event occurs. One might suspect that any theory positing such overdetermination fails to vindicate mental causation, since mental causes continue to appear in some sense redundant. These rules are sensitive to semantic notions like change of state, direct causation, affectedness, and the like. In any case, it is a notable feature of the current methodological ferment that causation has re-entered the discourse of social science. An alternative materialist account of resurrection is offered, one in which immanent causation is not necessary. However, to a certain extent, they also express a 'causation of existence'. Some writers in the mechanismic school appear to take the position that, without supporting evidence at the micro-foundational level, causation has not been proven. Such situations exist in a highly probabalistic environment where the traditional linear rules of causation do not apply. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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