Causation dictionary definition

The third consideration is the degree to which we apprehend that endless chain of causation inevitably demanded by reason, in which each phenomenon comprehended, and therefore man's every action, must have its definite place as a result of what has gone before and as a cause of what will follow.
(3) However accessible may be the chain of causation of any action, we shall never know the whole chain since it is endless, and so again we never reach absolute inevitability.
London: Pharmaceutical Press Trautner EM (1949) A contribution to the causation of atropine allergy.
The targeted population public coverage increased causation of disease to health care.
These results do not by themselves prove causation of cancer, rather they show relevant bio-effects in certain susceptible subsets of the population.

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