Sentences with phrase «talk about causation»

Not exact matches

Nick Kristof was just on Morning Joe talking about his latest column, which flirts with reverse causation on the issue of our mores and our political dispositions.

One might prefer not to talk about «reason» if one identifies reason with (efficient or final) causation, but even the weaker word «explanation» would do here.

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.

While you are are talking about vegetarian diets in general, and not necessarily lower cholesterol, it's my guess that any study that shows such a link is likely to be a similar case of «reverse causation».

With you, I think the time line is clear, and I think the causation is clear, but, I feel, it must be unproductive to talk about this «causation».

Now we'll talk about negligence where an intentional tort is about someone doing something they weren't supposed to do negligence usually happens when someone doesn't do something they were supposed to do there are 3 parts to a negligence case duty breach and causation first, duty... heh, «duty» this is your duty not to -LSB-...]

But, then, if this means we're talking about legal causation and not factual causation, then Resurfice material contribution can't be understood to be about factual causation, right?

Kellie, any thoughts on preparing a summary of whatever evidence is available from Factor Analysis, as opposed to simply talking about simple correlations which don't of course — as you'd know — tell us much about actual causation of the differences?