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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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