单词	causation
释义	causationcau‧sa‧tion /kɔːˈzeɪʃən $ kɒː-/ noun [uncountable] formal Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A strong association, however, is not a proof of causation. It is also necessary for the plaintiff to prove causation. It is important to understand that such identities do not imply causation. Once triggered, however, a process of cumulative causation sets in. The House held that the burden of proof of causation remained on the plaintiff throughout the case. The prevalent analyses of causation seem justifiably only to allow events and possibly agents as causes. Weber himself seems to take a Humean or Positivist view of causation. word sets WORD SETS► Philosophy causation, nouncosmogony, noundeconstruction, noundeterminism, noundialectic, nounexistentialism, nounfree will, nounhumanism, nounhypothesis, nounidealism, nouninduction, nouninductive, adjectivelateral thinking, nounMarxism, nounmaterialism, nounmetaphysical, adjectivemetaphysics, nounnihilism, nounontology, nounphilosopher, nounphilosophical, adjectivephilosophize, verbpositivism, nounpostulate, nounprecept, nounsolipsism, nounsyllogism, nounTao, nounTaoism, nounthinker, nounthought, nountranscendentalism, nounutilitarian, adjectiveutilitarianism, nounyang, nounyin, nounyin and yang, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► break · The defendants were held not liable for this injury, as the plaintiff's unreasonable conduct broke the chain of causation.· The defendant was held liable for the loss, as the thief's act did not break the chain of causation.· In order to break the chain of causation the third party act must be independent of the breach of duty.· He considered whether the boys' acts broke the chain of causation.· Where the third party act is negligent, it may or may not break the chain of causation.· The second accident did not break the chain of causation as it was a natural consequence of the first accident.· If the act should have been foreseen by a reasonable man as likely, it would not break the chain of causation.· This will be treated as a novus actus interveniens which breaks the chain of causation. 1the action of causing something to happen or exist2causality
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