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What (who) is CAUSE - definition

HOW ONE PROCESS INFLUENCES ANOTHER
Cause; Causal; Causal relationships; Cause and effect theory; Unconditional causality; Unicausality; Cause system; Causal relationship; Cause & Effect; INUS condition; INUS; Causing; Principle of causality; Cause And Effect; Causational; Causal explanation; Cause and Effect; Causal learning; Cause-and-effect; Caused; Cause and effect; Causal nexus; Causal conditional; Historical contingency; Causality (philosophy); Cause‐and‐effect; Psychology of causality; Major force
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  • Used in management and engineering, an [[Ishikawa diagram]] shows the factors that cause the effect. Smaller arrows connect the sub-causes to major causes.

cause         
I
n.
movement
objective
1) to advance, champion, fight for, promote; serve a cause
2) to espouse, plead a cause
3) to take up a cause
4) a common; good, just, worthwhile, worthy cause (to make common cause with smb.)
5) a lost cause
reason
6) to give; show cause for
7) (legal) probable cause
8) a deep-rooted, root, underlying; immediate; leading, major; primary; secondary; ultimate cause
9) natural causes (to die of natural causes)
10) (a) cause for (there is no cause for alarm)
11) cause to + inf. (to find cause to rejoice; there is no cause to complain; she had good cause to be disappointed)
II
v.
1) (A; usu. without to) we caused them a lot of trouble
2) (rare) (H; no passive) the incident caused me to reflect
cause         
(causes, causing, caused)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
The cause of an event, usually a bad event, is the thing that makes it happen.
Smoking is the biggest preventable cause of death and disease...
The causes are a complex blend of local and national tensions.
? effect
N-COUNT: oft N of n
2.
To cause something, usually something bad, means to make it happen.
Attempts to limit family size among some minorities are likely to cause problems...
This was a genuine mistake, but it did cause me some worry.
...a protein that gets into animal cells and attacks other proteins, causing disease to spread.
...the damage to Romanian democracy caused by events of the past few days.
VERB: V n, V n n, V n to-inf, V-ed
3.
If you have cause for a particular feeling or action, you have good reasons for feeling it or doing it.
Only a few people can find any cause for celebration...
Both had much cause to be grateful for the secretiveness of government in Britain.
= reason
N-UNCOUNT: N for n, N to-inf
4.
A cause is an aim or principle which a group of people supports or is fighting for.
Refusing to have one leader has not helped the cause.
N-COUNT
see also lost cause
5.
You use cause and effect to talk about the way in which one thing is caused by another.
...fundamental laws of biological cause and effect.
PHRASE
6.
If you say that something is in a good cause or for a good cause, you mean that it is worth doing or giving to because it will help other people, for example by raising money for charity.
The Raleigh International Bike Ride is open to anyone who wants to raise money for a good cause.
PHRASE
Cause         
·v Sake; interest; advantage.
II. Cause ·conj Abbreviation of Because.
III. Cause ·vi To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
IV. Cause ·v Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general.
V. Cause ·v That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing.
VI. Cause ·v That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.
VII. Cause ·v A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
VIII. Cause ·v The side of a question, which is espoused, advocated, and upheld by a person or party; a principle which is advocated; that which a person or party seeks to attain.
IX. Cause ·noun To effect as an agent; to Produce; to be the occasion of; to bring about; to bring into existence; to Make;
- usually followed by an infinitive, sometimes by that with a finite verb.

Wikipedia

Causality

Causality (also called causation, or cause and effect) is influence by which one event, process, state, or object (a cause) contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (an effect) where the cause is partly responsible for the effect, and the effect is partly dependent on the cause. In general, a process has many causes, which are also said to be causal factors for it, and all lie in its past. An effect can in turn be a cause of, or causal factor for, many other effects, which all lie in its future. Some writers have held that causality is metaphysically prior to notions of time and space.

Causality is an abstraction that indicates how the world progresses. As such a basic concept, it is more apt as an explanation of other concepts of progression than as something to be explained by others more basic. The concept is like those of agency and efficacy. For this reason, a leap of intuition may be needed to grasp it. Accordingly, causality is implicit in the logic and structure of ordinary language, as well as explicit in the language of scientific causal notation.

In English studies of Aristotelian philosophy, the word "cause" is used as a specialized technical term, the translation of Aristotle's term αἰτία, by which Aristotle meant "explanation" or "answer to a 'why' question". Aristotle categorized the four types of answers as material, formal, efficient, and final "causes". In this case, the "cause" is the explanans for the explanandum, and failure to recognize that different kinds of "cause" are being considered can lead to futile debate. Of Aristotle's four explanatory modes, the one nearest to the concerns of the present article is the "efficient" one.

David Hume, as part of his opposition to rationalism, argued that pure reason alone cannot prove the reality of efficient causality; instead, he appealed to custom and mental habit, observing that all human knowledge derives solely from experience.

The topic of causality remains a staple in contemporary philosophy.

Examples of use of CAUSE
1. "They feel happy when they cause suffering –– when they cause suffering in Afghanistan, when they cause suffering in Britain, when they cause suffering elsewhere," he said.
2. "Our cause is Kashmir, their cause is Afghanistan.
3. Amyloid pathology may cause tau pathology and tau pathology might cause amyloid pathology.
4. Leading cause of cancer There, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women.
5. Doctors said that playing with fireworks might cause serious burns, which cause deformations.