The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect. (noun)
Examples of word causality
The interesting causality is that one of the reasons the Republicans took so long to retake Congress is that they thought it was a good idea to campaign against Social Security and Medicare.
Steve: The interesting causality is that one of the reasons the Republicans took so long to retake Congress is that they thought it was a good idea to campaign against Social Security and Medicare.
It seems pretty trivial as statement, but correlation and causality is too often considered as being the same.
"From the moment of my birth, light (that I could have influenced) has been expanding around the Earth and light (which could influence me, from an increasing distance of origin) reaching it -- this ever-growing sphere of potential causality is my light cone."
How causality is approached can be a matter of perspective.
In turn, belief in causality requires a prime cause, and almost all religion is based on trying to explain in one way or another the prime cause.
The causality is not that simple as is sometimes argued, he says.