Causation may refer to:

Philosophy

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

Physics

Causality (physics) Causality is the relationship between causes and effects. While causality is also a topic studied from the perspectives of philosophy and physics, it is operationalized so that causes of an event must be in the past light cone of the event and ...

Law

Causation (law) Causation is the "causal relationship between the defendant's conduct and end result". In other words, causation provides a means of connecting conduct with a resulting effect, typically an injury. In criminal law, it is defined as the ''actus ...

, a key component to establish liability in both criminal and civil law *

Proximate cause In law and insurance, a proximate cause is an event sufficiently related to an injury that the courts deem the event to be the cause of that injury. There are two types of causation in the law: cause-in-fact, and proximate (or legal) cause. Ca ...

, the basis of liability in negligence in the United States * Causation, in English law, defines the requirement for liability in negligence

Language

* " Correlation does not imply causation", phrase used in the sciences and statistics

Sociology

Causation (sociology) Causation refers to the existence of "cause and effect" relationships between multiple variables. Causation presumes that variables, which act in a predictable manner, can produce change in related variables and that this relationship can be dedu ...

, the belief that events or actions can directly produce change in another variable in a predictable and observable manner

Other uses

Proximate causation A proximate cause is an event which is ''closest'' to, or immediately responsible for causing, some observed result. This exists in contrast to a higher-level ultimate cause (or ''distal cause'') which is usually thought of as the "real" reason ...

, the direct reason behind an event occurring

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