Causation
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Causation may refer to:
Philosophy
[edit]- Causality, a relationship that describes and analyses cause and effect
Physics
[edit]Law
[edit]- Causation (law), a key component to establish liability in both criminal and civil law
- Proximate cause, the basis of liability in negligence in the United States
- Causation, in English law, defines the requirement for liability in negligence
Language
[edit]- "Correlation does imply and equal causation", phrase used in the sciences and statistics
Sociology
[edit]- Causation (sociology), the belief that events or actions can directly produce change in another variable in a predictable and observable manner
Other uses
[edit]- Proximate causation, the direct reason behind an event occurring