causality

causality
   This word (from the Latin causa, meaning "cause" or "reason") refers to the relationship of cause and effect, or of one event or phenomenon to another. Aristotelianism speaks of four causes: material cause (the stuff from which an object is made), formal cause (the shape given that object), efficient cause (the one making the object), and final cause (the purpose for which an object exists).

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  • causality — [kô zal′i tē] n. pl. causalities 1. causal quality or agency 2. the interrelation of cause and effect 3. the principle that nothing can exist or happen without a cause …   English World dictionary

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  • Causality (physics) — Causality [Green, Celia (2003). The Lost Cause: Causation and the Mind Body Problem . Oxford: Oxford Forum. ISBN 0 9536772 1 4. Includes three chapters on causality at the microlevel in physics.] [Bunge, Mario (1959). Causality: the place of the… …   Wikipedia

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