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the causal factors associated with illness.

a causal relationship between scarcity of goods and higher prices.

He threaded several causal ideas into a charming essay.

One way this might happen is by a sort of causal overdetermination: physical states causally determine behavior, but phenomenal states cause behavior at the same time.

a geometric progression. In asequence things follow one another in chronological or numerical order or in an order that indicates a causal or logical relationship or a recurrent pattern:

They learn new causal relationships from just a few examples.

Of course these findings are associative and not necessarily causal.

Even then, to reiterate, there are no causal links, only association.

There's no definitive causal link here. But the researchers still have a few ideas.

We can't do the drug trials, but we're still very interested in causal facts.

In conclusion, we can see that there is no causal relationship between China’s grand history and its future.

The agency said, " a causal link with the vaccine is not proven, but is possible, "

At best there is a weak statistical association and not a causal link between DNA and intelligence.

The logic seems plausible, but is there any causal relationship between historical grandeur and China’s future greatness?

Whether anyone actually believes in a causal relationship between eating these foods and receiving the promised benefits is unclear.