Do we care enough to break the causal chain?

We want to get ourselves into the causal chain.

It's where you start the causal chain.

At some point in the chain, there must have been an act of origination of a new causal chain.

The causal chain of events still eludes us.

The two divisions do not have a productive or causal effect on each other.

Placental insufficiency as a result of smoking has been shown to have a causal effect in the development of pre-eclampsia.

If the sample were larger and the variance were less, the average causal effect would be closer to the true average causal effect.

The authors state a researcher can make these bold, causation statements while allowing for variance by using what they call variance of causal effect.

Knowing the average causal effect and having observed the response to one treatment for each unit, one can determine the response to the other treatment.

Within evolutionary biology, the highest level of causal explanation involves adaptation by means of natural selection.

This theory focuses on identifying how an observer uses information in his/her social environment in order to create a causal explanation for events.

Statistical analysis will not, then, be able meaningfully to confirm any causal explanation for the number of customers at any moment in time.

Geographers reacted to this by first developing the softer notion of environmental possibilism, and later by abandoning the search for theory and causal explanation for many decades.

Participants were instructed to write down three good things that happened at the end of each day, in addition to a causal explanation for each good thing.

Of course, this favours political contingency as a causal factor in history, and a number of contributors worry about that.

The board concluded that spatial disorientation caused by the dust cloud was 'the major causal factor' in the crash.

He showed that poverty couldn't be blamed and that air pollution must be the dominant causal factor.

The report said this was a causal factor but the company should have acted on a recommendation in 2003 to replace the crossing with a bridge.

The prison service denied that the ban had been the 'causal factor' in any disturbances requiring the deployment of national resources such as riot teams.

He has made contributions to survival analysis, semiparametric statistics, multiple testing, and causal inference.

These may be defined as pieces of data that provide information about context and mechanisms, and that offer distinctive leverage in making causal inferences.

Conducting field experiments allows researchers to make causal inferences from their results, and therefore increases external validity.

We give it a special status in terms of our causal inferences.

On their own, quasi-experimental designs do not allow one to make definitive causal inferences; however, they provide necessary and valuable information that can not be obtained by experimental methods alone.

The problem of discovering the causal mechanism for successfully picking out the referent of a category name can in principle be solved by cognitive science.

Failure of the bloodbrain barrier may also be a causal mechanism.

Place and practice were paramount in his method for making sense of causal mechanisms in nature.

It has been suggested that these eye symptoms are related to different causal mechanisms.

For some topics, there are graphical displays, animations of causal mechanisms, or interactive simulation environments.

People try to make sense of an event that has not turned out how they expected by creating causal reasoning for the starting event conditions.

Her research focuses on the topics of cognitive development, language acquisition, categorization, inductive reasoning, causal reasoning, and relationships between language and thought.

First, reason alone can not motivate usit can only perform demonstrative or causal reasoning.

With causal reasoning entrepreneurs will determine goals to achieve and look for the ressources to do so.

The role of mechanism in causal reasoning.

That causal relation, once placed in the context of the biological, evolved function which the leonine representation serves, will create the necessary asymmetry.

This left the causal relation between the levers and the duck a mystery.

The first version, which they despatch quite quickly, appeals to the idea that a genuine singular thought requires a causal relation between the thinker and the object thought about.

With terms that are uncertain and not clearly disjunctive, the presumed causal relation becomes suspect.

Take a very simple causal relation, such as when a cue ball strikes an eight ball and causes it to go into the pocket.

In his view, syntax plays the role of mediation between the causal role of the symbols and their contents.

The causal role of different socioeconomic factors may vary by country.

The results suggested that reasoning abnormalities may have a causal role in the formation of paranormal belief.

High frequency field oscillations called ripples were observed in the sleep state and later shown to play a causal role in memory consolidation.

Establishing that phenomenological properties are amenable to individuation by causal role therefore requires argument.