Sentences with phrase «causation did»

Lord Hope, agreeing, said that the ordinary rules of causation did nothing to advance the appellants» claim for the psychological effect of risks of injury.

Since both courts held that no duty owed was to her, the issue of causation did not arise.

Popper salvaged the scientific method from Hume's attacks on induction but agreed that the problem of causation did not have a positive solution, what caused the cause is not really on the table.

Human purpose would be futile if efficient causation did not maintain stable patterns of predictability in the world.

Reference to non-physical causation does not resonate harmoniously with mechanistic biology which attempts to explain life in terms of specifiable chemical components and physical forces.

Secondary causation does not exclude and is not in conflict with primary causation.

Efficient causation does play a role in the next stage of Whitehead's explanation, but not in terms of prehension.

While the association between polycystic ovarian disease and the comorbidities described above such as PCOS insulin resistance have been demonstrated by scientific research, causation does not appear to have been established.

Putting aside that no case has ever claimed that contribution applies only to but - for causes — good thing because there's many a defendant held liable who received contribution where the conduct wasn't a but - for cause and there's no reason to read any of the apportionment statutes that way — I suppose the conclusion that contribution is limited to but - for causation does follow if the Court believes that the only way there can ever be factual causation is under the but - for test.

Not exact matches

Scientists and educators have long noted that kids who have a positive attitude towards math do better in the subject, but is that just because acing tests naturally makes you enjoy something, or does the arrow of causation point the other way?

However, just because there happens to be a nearly perfect correlation for those two variables doesn't mean that large feet will make (causation) you a better reader.

Juwai.com and Sotheby's International Realty Canada caution that such research and data can be useful in establishing trends over time, but do not imply causation with sales activity or real estate market performance.

Correlation does not equal causation, as they say, and there are a number of factors that can drive higher average unit volumes, such as having a drive - through, a broader menu, and more marketing spending, but the numbers above do seem to favor the fresh - beef chains.

As is often said, «correlation does not imply causation,» and this could be true here.

The district court in First Solar ultimately applied the standard from the Daou line of cases and held that plaintiffs did not need to show that the market reacted to the fact that First Solar had committed fraud in order to satisfy the loss causation requirement.

You've probably heard before that correlation does not imply causality (or causation, if you prefer), but do you really understand what this means and why this is important in conversion optimization?.

Correlation does not prove causation.

It might seem, however, that we do not need to enter into the technicalities of epistemology in order to see the necessity of final causation for knowledge, but we could discover this necessity by examining history instead.

Where then does the root - commodities of religious socialisms truly matter and «riotizingly» materialize upon spatterings regarding irrational causations?

Correlation does not mean causation.

Even time itself exhibits causation as do all known and conceptual 12 dimensions of creation.

All existing substance has causation while non-existing substances do not exist because it is impossible for them to exist.

You could spend all day correlating causation in a classical quantum state with the form and substance of the Holy Spirit yet never publish an accepted study simply because «my god did it» is not a reasonable explanation for things that are not known.

djangoboy «Quantum physics does not require causation.»

5) That supernatural cause could not itself have a cause, because infinite causal chains do not exist — let's suppose for the sake of argument that the chain of causation has to stop somewhere; it is just as legitimate to suppose that it stops with the Universe, or that your supernatural being is not the final link in the chain

I did not bring up agency with intelligent intent as my preference but it is the prevalent preference as to causation.

You are a classic case of self delusion, and claim you use logic when you don't, claim you have causation, when you don't even have a correlation, claim a creator, when nothing indicates one.

The study does not prove causation only correlation.

But correlation does not necessarily equal causation and I do not venture as far as to say that religion causes corruption.

If I turn on the light and it goes on, this is not necessary, it might not come on, but it is not random, there is causation: if the light does not come on, we assert that there must be some explanation: the bulb has «blown», a circuit - breaker or RCD has «tripped», a wire is loose or there is a power cut.

The standard caution applies: Correlation does not necessarily imply causation.

Second, Keller is a smart guy and he should know that correlation does not mean causation.

It may simply correlate to your god's plan, but correlation does not equal causation.

I would question whether we need to bring the hypothesis of formative causation before the court of scientific judgment, even if it does somehow find independent authentication there.

Of course the Greeks do not have the final word on the subject, and we can possibly learn a lot from science about the results of morphogenetic causation.

This does not deny that there is also a natural order of causation, but the fullest explanation in natural terms does not in any way affect the need for understanding the whole network of natural causes as wholly dependent for its being and preservation upon a supernatural cause.

As far as the subject can tell, it is possible that the experience is erroneous, so the subject's epistemic situation should be described as believing that it experiences actual, objective causation or that it appears to him or her that it does.

It would appear that we do not have two different kinds of causation but two ways of speaking about a process, dependent on the speaker's perspective on a particular stage of the event - succession Supposing we are contemporaneous with an electron, we look at its present state in relation to its past, and we say «efficient causation»; if we look at its present state in relation to its future, we say «final causation.»

(Note, of course, that correlation does not necessarily equal causation here, and higher fertility might also predict greater religiosity.)

The intuition that I, with my conscious experience, am an actual individual with the power of self - determination, to make decisions and to cause my body to do my bidding, is reconciled with the equally strong sense that my body is real, and that it exerts powerful causation upon me, in terms of the speculative hypothesis that all actual occasions are occasions of experience, so that interaction of body and mind is not the unintelligible interaction of unlikes (the unintelligibility of which has led philosophers to deny the distinct actuality either of the mind or of the body).

When Buber speaks of the free man as free of causation, process, and defined being, he does not mean that the free man acts from within himself without connection with what has come to him from the outside.

@Bill Deacon,»... evolutionary biology can not provide a positive causation for the digital encoding of these strands...» I'm not certain why you use the loaded language or «digital encoding», but evolution does provide a mechanism for changes in the genetic makeup of all organisms.

April 2011 [14] Although correlation does not necessarily imply causation, high correlation is an ever - present and necessary characteristic of causation.

Correlation does not equal causation.

A contemporary philosophy can not, of course, deal with final causation in the same way Aristotle did.

At the moment we do not have evidence pointing towards natural or supernatural causation.

Now correlation does not imply causation, but it sure takes the wind out of the argument that you need god on your side for prosperity and happiness.

If self - causation or self - creation is an attribute of everything, how does it occur?

I find nothing to object to the ideal of complete explanation, even though it is unrealizable in practice, but I do question this exclusive attention to efficient causation.

Aside from the fact that those stats have nothing to do with religion's truth, all those stats (higher drug use, lower happiness, higher stress) are all found additionally in intelligent people (something highly correlated with atheism)-- so your argument of causation is really a farce.