Bacteriology, and its forerunners from the 1840s, also had an effect on ideas of universalised and specific disease causation. |
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The inquiry itself embodied a pivotal shift in scientific paradigms of disease causation from miasmatic or filth-based models to the germ theory. |
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Like coin tosses, there may be no salient causation to be discerned in the outcomes. |
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Given the claims about microphysics it is vital for Green's argument that the real causation can only be found at the microlevel. |
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There seems to be a pattern of failure, which might suggest that causation is simply unanalyzable. |
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Is it possible to do a functional analysis that does not depend on assumptions of unidirectional linear time and causation? |
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The existence of damage to the plants at that side of the field thus negatived the Claimant's case as to causation. |
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In addressing causation following a negligent omission, two questions arise. |
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Her narrative follows a loopy line traced more by mood and caprice than by causation or chronology. |
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The present study confirmed the harmfulness of bidis in the causation of lung cancer. |
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But a point that he made was that the judge at the hearing, the trial judge, misdirected himself to causation, and he did. |
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The question of connection occupies the bulk of the vast literature on causation. |
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A jury could reasonably decide that causation had been established, given the evidence. |
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We searched Medline using strategies for studies of causation and aetiology described by McKibbon. |
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Moreover, in simple causation the second event does not occur unless the first event has occurred. |
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But if you put it on that basis, your causation has not necessarily been determined. |
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The general principle is that causation is established if the result would not have occurred but for D's conduct. |
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It inhibits a phosphorylating enzyme that's crucial in the causation of that particular cancer. |
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Where we say the trial judge eventually failed is that he did not make a determination as to causation in this case. |
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A breach of duty was conceded but causation of the injury was not accepted. |
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Rather, liability for injuries has been extended beyond any reasonable definition of causation. |
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In conclusion, this study has shown smoking as the principle risk factor in the causation of lung cancer among men. |
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The intuition that causation is an intrinsic relation does not apply in this case. |
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It seems that people on the right and left are quick to confuse correlation with causation. |
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Of course, one alternative possibility might be to deny that causation is an extensional relation. |
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Another version of the first kind of strategy is to clarify the notion of causation involved in the argument. |
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The link between correlation and causation seems to be the bone of contention. |
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Probabilistic theories of causation can be used to answer both types of question. |
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If you apply the statistics, you will find correlation, even if there is no causation. |
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As often is the case, a problem covering omission will also involve a consideration of causation. |
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Some authorities reverse the ordinary burden or proof with respect to causation. |
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He demanded that an adequate explanation of a correlation or process should specify all four aspects of causation. |
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Such conspiracy thinking is actually a misdirected partial understanding of social causation. |
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Time travel, entailing as it does backward causation, does not involve changing the past. |
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The courts do not appear to have grappled with the principles of causation specifically in relation to omissions. |
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We are a social order built on the notion of underlying causation and necessary explanations. |
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As was implicit in our opening reflections on causation, that conception includes causal circumstances. |
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However, it will probably be rare for a patient's refusal to consent to care to constitute an intervening event breaking the chain of causation. |
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Unfortunately it did not enlarge on the circumstances in which self-injection would not have the effect of breaking the chain of causation. |
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Nor, in my judgment, can it be seriously argued that the negligence of the Respondents breaks the chain of causation. |
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The question then arises as to whether causation requires coarse-grained or fine-grained individuation. |
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The Philosopher Igal Kvart has been a persistent critic of the claim that it is possible to analyze counterfactuals without using causation. |
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No empirical phenomena seem to demand a notion of backward causation for our understanding of them. |
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Agent causation, it may be argued, is a condition of the possibility of morally responsible agency. |
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We do not introspectively observe agent causation, and even highly improbable behavior could occur in a world without agent causation. |
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Dependent origination is not a theory of causation with respect to bringing about a pluralistically real world. |
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Next the jury has to consider causation and then whether the breach was gross enough to constitute a crime. |
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Nevertheless, I think that Davis' basic approach of isolating subsystems of causation is extremely fruitful. |
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It is causation that provides the real basis for the pragmatically selected natural kinds we attend to. |
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But every inductive argument that proves its conclusion presupposes the truth of the law of causation. |
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Exorcists were known to abstain periodically from food for reasons of vision causation, purgation, and divine encounter. |
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On the contrary, it affirmed the principle that the onus of proving causation lies on the pursuer or plaintiff. |
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Indeed, the plaintiffs in this case are relying on decisions disallowing the use of animal tests by plaintiffs to prove causation. |
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If all causation is physical, then the epiphenomenal mental state is irrelevant to the act of causation. |
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Homicide, for example, is such a crime because you need to prove actus reus, mens rea, concurrence, causation, and harm. |
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But what about the suggestion that event causation is instead reducible to, or analysable in terms of, agent causation? |
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Such a view reconciles free will not with determinism but with the highly plausible thesis of universal event causation. |
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In the study of environmental toxins, the causation of diverse effects is usually the rule rather than the exception. |
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The Defendant's intention to terminate in any event breaks the chain of causation. |
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The moral to be drawn is that causation may imply that certain counterfactuals hold, but the holding of counterfactuals is not enough to show causation. |
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The notion of causation, as a legal matter, involves two types of inquiry. |
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Opposing either form of reductionism would be the thesis that both species of causation exist but that neither is analysable in terms of the other. |
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For understanding disease causation and to describe the impact of risk factors for disease, the traditional epidemiological measures are absolute and relative risk. |
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Unfortunately, there is much myth surrounding the causation of the zits. |
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Of course, the judge cannot have had any intention of overseeing half-a-million mini-trials on causation, nor can they have had any intention of lawyering them. |
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The court did not, however, rule that the investigation into the means by which the deceased came by his death should be limited to the last link in the chain of causation. |
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If prediction and explanation are paradigmatic of scientific understanding, it appears that agent causation neither contributes to nor detracts from such understanding. |
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Factors to consider are researcher beliefs and attitudes, facts and ideas, the attribution of causation, and the discovery role of historical writing. |
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The criteria for determining causation of serious events were not stated. |
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It has been less clearly understood that this relationship may well be a two-way street, with causation possibly working in the opposite direction as well. |
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As my psychology students realize, correlation does not equal causation. |
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It does not depend on proof of causation of actionable loss. |
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However, all causation and human rights questions are very fact sensitive and I consider that it would be wrong to pronounce on the matter in the abstract. |
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There is one other matter which I must mention in relation to causation. |
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Negligent intervening acts may or may not break the chain of causation. |
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That involves proof of causation, which is discussed further below. |
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The aforementioned surveys may not be sufficient to make any firm conclusions about correlation, and much less about causation. |
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In arguing that abortion causes suicide, abortion opponents turn correlation into causation. |
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While Cavendish was in many respects a Galenist, I show that she also reinterpreted Galenism in terms of her own theory of matter and an occasionalist theory of causation. |
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When we connect progeneration to causation, we do so according to these topological features. |
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It is the mental act of association that is the basis of our concept of causation. |
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In the Critical Phase, Hume denies his predecessors' theories of causation. |
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It has been argued that, while Hume did not think causation is reducible to pure regularity, he was not a fully fledged realist either. |
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Between the defendant's acts and the victim's harm, the chain of causation must be unbroken. |
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The question, once all the other elements are satisfied, is simply one of causation. |
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Causation in English law concerns the legal tests of remoteness, causation and foreseeability in the tort of negligence. |
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Whether the acts of a third party break the chain of causation depends on whether the intervention was foreseeable. |
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But, taken together, the questions of causation and immediacy have created a weakness in the limitations placed on the defence. |
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An intentional tort requires an overt act, some form of intent, and causation. |
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Asbestos litigations which have been ongoing for decades revolve around the issue of causation. |
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The United States generally recognizes four elements to a negligence action, duty, breach, proximate causation and injury. |
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For one thing, the Redskins Rule reveals correlation, not causation. |
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But it is important to realise that but for causation is no more than indicative of true legal causation. |
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The remedy for this deficient rule is to make causation a rebuttable presumption. |
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Not only is there no special propensity for cancer causation among chlorines, the addition of chlorine can actually detoxify certain compounds. |
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The authors attack the common view that causation involves necessity by distinguishing between causal 'production' and necessitation. |
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This paper names the two kinds of account of causation and temporal precedence derivative and underivative accounts. |
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The role of inflammation in causation of symptoms from the herniated nucleus pulposus is well-established. |
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It is quite possible, perhaps even likely, that Robinson and Harris have confused the direction of causation in their correlational analyses. |
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A counterexample to a conditional analysis of causation is late pre-emption. |
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The climate change deniers grasp at straws to attempt to deny climate change and its human causation. |
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Morganstern-Clarren's testimony regarding causation during direct examination of the doctor or at any other time during the presentation of the plaintiff's case. |
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This view is rejected by skeptical realists, who argue that Hume thought that causation amounts to more than just the regular succession of events. |
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The notion of causation is closely linked to the problem of induction. |
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In examining associations between independent variables measured at Wave 1 and outcomes occurring later, there is little reason for concern about reverse causation. |
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The duty and causation elements in particular give the court the greatest opportunity to take the case from the jury, because they directly involve questions of policy. |
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Although the notion sounds simple, the causation between one's breach of duty and the harm that results to another can at times be very complicated. |
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But, because so many kids get strep throat and antibody titers often stay elevated for 3-9 months after an acute infection, many argued that there was no proof of causation. |
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To argue so would be to argue either that a corporeal causation could produce a spiritual reality or that there is some sort of traducianism that comes into play. |
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In Chapter 5, Hudson takes up a puzzle about the apparent inconsistency between certain views in mereology and the a posteriori denial of superluminal motion or causation. |
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Other researchers point out that finding a difference in disease prevalence between two socially defined groups does not necessarily imply genetic causation of the difference. |
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This combination of prevention and control measures reflected the unresolved conflict between contagionist and anti-contagionist views of cholera's causation. |
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