Causation Explained

Causation may refer to:

Philosophy

• Causality, a relationship that describes and analyses cause and effect

Physics

• Causality (physics)

Law

• Causation (law), a key component to establish liability in both criminal and civil law
• Proximate cause, the basis of liability in negligence in the United States
• Causation, in English law, defines the requirement for liability in negligence

Language

• "Correlation does imply and equal causation", phrase used in the sciences and statistics

Sociology

• Causation (sociology), the belief that events or actions can directly produce change in another variable in a predictable and observable manner

Other uses

• Proximate causation, the direct reason behind an event occurring

See also

• Causality (disambiguation)
• Cause (disambiguation)