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In the FSCO Appeal Decision of State Farm and Sabadash (P16 - 00029), Director's Delegate Evans conducts a thorough analysis of the key jurisprudence on causation in Canada of the key causation...

In the FSCO Appeal Decision of State Farm and Sabadash (P16 - 00029), Director's Delegate Evans conducts a thorough analysis of the key jurisprudence on causation in Canada of the key causation decisions: Athey v. Leonati (1996 S.C.C.), Resurfice Corp v. Hanke (2007 S.C.C.).

MacLean Law's Surrey Vancouver Medical Malpractice Lawyers took note today of the Supreme Court of Canada's newest blockbuster 4:3 decision on causation in medical malpractice cases.

Justice Cronk writing for the unanimous Court summarized the jurisprudence on causation in accident benefits matters to that date:

[85] Athey v. Leonati2 is the leading Canadian case on causation in tort law.

[Expert evidence was required on causation in a legal malpractice case at summary judgment proceeding.]

However, the primary focus on causation in the inner realm risks obscuring the gravity of trespasses in the «outer» world, the systematic and institutional nature of oppression, and the culpability of the perpetrating agents.

Not exact matches

And just as we frequently mistake correlation for causation, we're susceptible to what's called the «gambler's fallacy,» the belief that anomalies from expected outcomes in a random process are likely to be evened out by their opposites in the future — or, more simply, the idea that a roulette ball that's landed eight straight times on black is therefore more likely on the ninth spin to land on red.

At Oxford University, Tony Honoré made his name as an expert on causation and moral responsibility in the law.

The Ninth Circuit's holding in First Solar marks its first definitive resolution of the internal conflict in its case law on loss causation.

But if you are looking for consilience, in which multiple lines of independent evidence converge on the same target, then Schwartz's argument is a good one to have in your arsenal, for it fits nicely with biological arguments for intelligent design (cf. Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box), recent philosophical work on mental causation (cf. Robert Koons» Realism Regained), cosmological fine - tuning (cf. John Barrow and Frank Tipler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle), and consciousness studies (cf. Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe).

In the process, cadets tried to discern continuity and causation in complicated events, and from a name, mere words on a page, they worked to reverse - engineer a lifIn the process, cadets tried to discern continuity and causation in complicated events, and from a name, mere words on a page, they worked to reverse - engineer a lifin complicated events, and from a name, mere words on a page, they worked to reverse - engineer a life.

In particular, I'm optimistic that Schwartz's concept of «mental force» can be given a solid metaphysical underpinning in terms of Rob Koons» above - mentioned work on mental causatioIn particular, I'm optimistic that Schwartz's concept of «mental force» can be given a solid metaphysical underpinning in terms of Rob Koons» above - mentioned work on mental causatioin terms of Rob Koons» above - mentioned work on mental causation.

A manuscript on explanation and causation in history which my conversion led me to lay aside 90 per cent completed still sits on a shelf.

But Catholic thinking rejects the genetic fallacy applied to the natural world and contains instead a holistic understanding of reality based on all the faculties of reason and all the causes evident in nature» including the «vertical» causation of formality and finality.

However, this reviewer was not convinced that the otherwise good discussion of emergence / top - down causation quite hit the nail on the head in addressing determinism.

Second, in our present cultural setting the AA emphasis on a physical component in alcoholism is» probably more effective than the concept of psychological causation in reducing the guilt - fear load and facilitating therapeutic change.

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.»

Efficient causation, on which this investigation shall concentrate, has in contrast presented serious problems.

Let me suggest, too, that Whitehead similarly insists on finite creativity, though in different words, when he says that «all actual entities share with God» and that they have the «characteristic of self - causation» (PR 339).

For one, the universe may only appear to have order, just as causation may only appear to actually exist, when in fact any given event may be said to have unlimited causes and we only limit are decision on what «truly» caused something to GIVE order to the universe — think about all the finger pointing that goes on every time something unexpected happens.

In other words, in the account of supervenient causation, M1 is said to be supervenient on P1, which is said to be a sufficient cause of PIn other words, in the account of supervenient causation, M1 is said to be supervenient on P1, which is said to be a sufficient cause of Pin the account of supervenient causation, M1 is said to be supervenient on P1, which is said to be a sufficient cause of P2.

Kim's writings on the mind as supervenient upon the body have revolved primarily around the effort to reconcile mental causation — «arguably... the central issue in the metaphysics of mind» (SM xv)-- with physicalism.

I wanted there to be macroscopic forms as an essential ingredient in the theory, and these exerting an influence on what happened by providing a sort of filter into which the causation of quantum mechanics had to direct itself.

It is based on Driesch and in turn on Aristotle, and the apparent duality between formative and energetic causation has its ancestry in Aristotle's distinction between form and matter.

Or, on the contrary, may the whole phenomenon of regeneration; even in these startling instantaneous examples, possibly be a strictly natural process, divine in its fruits, of course, but in one case more and in another less so, and neither more nor less divine in its mere causation and mechanism than any other process, high or low, of man's interior life?

We have four philosopher - scientists in the Dialogues: Margaret Masterman, developing a new theory of language; Christopher Clarke, a mathematical physicist working out a theory of space; Rupert Sheldrake, who has a hypothesis of «formative causation» as supplementing energetic causation; and Jonathan Westphal, who is working on the philosophical psychology of colour perception.

Though correlation doesn't necessarily connote causation, it is interesting to note that 9 of the 10 most religious states in the US, as revealed by a 2008 Gallup poll of more than 355,000 adults in the U.S. regarding the importance of religion in their lives, are also on the CDC's list of the 10 fattest states.

Darwin then distinguishes his «plan of creation» from the belief in «special creations» by drawing on a dual causation theory developed by Thomas Aquinas.

But briefly, it is this: «orthodox» scientific uneasiness about the role of purpose or final causation in planetary evolution has its grounds partly in the fact that over the centuries most people who have tried to describe the role of purpose on Earth haven't known «what» they were talking about.

The proper interpretation of Lamarckian notions in genetics thus depends fully on knowing «what» we are talking about: all new patterns of efficient causation in animal bodies can be traced to some occasions» subjective aims.

The causation involved in this interaction is causation in a different sense from the influence of this system of bodily interactions within nature on the alien mind which thereupon perceives redness and warmth.

On the microscopic level, when the novelty originating in the mental pole of an actual occasion is largely absent, the power of efficient causation escapes modification by conceptual ideals.

Researchers can also hone in on causation by tracking child development over time, and looking for evidence of change.

But anti-smoking campaigners long ago gave up on direct causation in their assessment of smoking harms or their proposals for reducing it.

The problem is that many actual real life politicians in USA assume that implication and make budgetary decisions and public rhethoric based on that assumed causation (example1, example2, example3 from top of Google search first page).

This week's features: A professor's troubling politicization of epigenetics in Gizmodo, Men's Health quotes me on male fertility but mistakes correlation for causation.

While this study, published in the journal Obesity on Monday, also does not prove causation, it provides a revealing look at the details of what changes in the body and what appears to remain stable with less sugar.

Herein we propose a variant of Koch's postulates, aimed at providing a framework to establish causation in microbiome studies, with a particular focus on demonstrating the health - promoting role of the commensal gut microbiota.

They suggest that the effects on lysosomes are secondary to reduced Aβ accumulation, but I suspect the causation may work in the reverse direction, since they found that HBCD lowered cellular membrane cholesterol, and abnormally high lysosomal membrane cholesterol can impair the acidification and function of lysosomes, which are necessary for clearance of intracellular Aβ.

In a sweeping study on the link between BMI on mortality, the Bristol Medical School team aimed to prove that correlation doesn't mean causation (for example, people who smoke tend to have lower BMIs, but that doesn't make them healthier).

Lastly, this may be the most important piece of information on the page: The Unified Theory of Heart Disease, proposed by Linus Pauling and Mathias Rath suggests that subclinical vitamin C deficiency (scurvy), Lipoprotein small (a) and mechanical stress at key arterial sites (such as bifurcations) are the major players in causation of heart disease.

A pioneer in the field of applied medical anthropology, Sydney, along with his wife and co-author, Soma Grismaijer have written numerous groundbreaking books that provide new theories, research, and revelations on disease causation and prevention, including the internationally acclaimed book, Dressed To Kill: The Link Between Breast Cancer and Bras.

There's a lot of buzz on the blogosphere that aluminum causes breast cancer because it's found in breast tissues, but correlation does not mean causation.

Effect of dietary fibre on stools and transit - times, and its role in the causation of disease.

The crisis of causation is of particular interest, as she is breaking new ground in cultural studies on a phenomenon that has become increasingly common in mainstream film and television.

Added to the neuroscience research on causation is additional scientific research conducted by education specialists on variability in patterns of dyslexia and the importance of individualizing interventions.

However, the two researchers acknowledged in a 2007 Boston Globe story that while «students involved in the arts do better in school and on their SATs than those who are not involved... correlation isn't causation, and an analysis we did several years ago showed no evidence that arts training actually causes scores to rise.»

The problem with the best - practices approach is not entirely that it depends on case studies, but that by avoiding variation in the dependent variable it prevents any scientific identification of causation.

Iv» e been reading Bsall postings and they all have a lot of passion for educating children which is what education is supposed to be about... My personal 2cents worth is this - In social science there is very little that can meet the level of scientifically verifiable causation and we therefor shouldn't be making decisions that impact childrens lives based on faulty science.