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causalityIn philosophy, a consideration of the connection between cause and effect, usually referred to as the ‘causal relationship’. If an event is assumed to have a cause, two important questions arise: what is the relationship between cause and effect, and must it follow that every event is caused? The Scottish philosopher David Hume considered these questions to be, in principle, unanswerable. |
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It's difficult to make a causal relationship between field burning and long-term health effects. Further investigation is needed to determine any direct causal relationship between the use of electronic media as a sleep aid and adolescent sleep and tiredness levels. Using toxicologic evidence, we may conjecture that an agent has a potential to cause human chronic disease, but we need further evidence--in most cases epidemiologic evidence--to establish a causal relationship between the agent and a chronic disease in humans. |
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Causal relationship
