Sentences with phrase «questions about causation»

Volokh opines that Section 230 generally immunizes Web site owners from these types of suits and also has questions about causation.

Rarely is human - induced climate change mentioned as a cause or contributing factor in the recent outbreak of sever tornadoes although questions about causation are becoming more frequent on TV and newspapers in this writer's experience.

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And if apparent emergence can be reduced to sheer physical resultance, then there is no need to ask questions about final causation or about any transcendent source of novelty.

The downside of case studies is the question of whether this process reduces enough uncertainty about causation to be useful.

Philosophers still argue about what causation actually is, and in empirical terms, the question is usually adressed in terms of experiments where one state (eg of matter or energy) can be reliably shown to always precede another state, and the connection between the two appears to have an innevitability about it — ie, if you do x, then y will (probably) happen.

More specifically in regard to the question of human causation, opponents of climate change policies that deny human causation should be expected to specifically respond to the numerous «foot - print» and «attribution» studies that the international community has relied on to make conclusions about human causation.

In his other finding on causation he ruled that even if the sisters had questioned Shaid Luqman about whether the directors» loan account was genuine rather than turning a blind eye to it, Shaid Luqman as an accomplished liar would easily have been able to convince them of its propriety.

I'll provide what I think you'd accept as a precise answer to the question as you posed it, bearing in mind that I think your question is about legal responsibility, not merely factual causation.

The Fifth Circuit held that the press release in question was not sufficient to satisfy the requirements to establish loss causation because «although the stock price dropped dramatically on the day of the 1 August 2006 press release, no new facts concerning Cyberonics» stock - option accounting were disclosed in that release which demonstrated that the «truth became known» about Cyberonics» challenged financial statements.»

The truth about factual causation issues in most personal injury actions is that, where there's any issue at all, it's not one that involves difficult questions of law or any need to venture into realms of philosophy or metaphysics, abstract, concrete or something else.