Scientists found no causality between the events.
a supreme being is a being that, by definition, has no causality of its own
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The Question of Proportionality Aristotle understood that causality is a complicated concept, and identified four different types of causes.—George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025 The study’s cross-sectional design didn’t allow the researchers to determine the causality of the relationship between sleep and cognitive performance.—Paul McClure 14, New Atlas, 14 May 2025 Its operating premise—that prosperity breeds inflation—gets the causality exactly wrong.—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025 If circumstances were otherwise, then perilous paradoxes could emerge: time machines could violate causality, matter could repel rather than attract, and even spacetime itself could be destabilized.—Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for causality
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borrowed from Medieval Latin causālitāt- causālitās, from Late Latin causāliscausal + Latin -itāt-, -itās-ity
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