the.com/causation
When one thing doesn't just follow another, it actually shoves it.
means The relationship where one event actually brings about another, rather than just happening to precede it.
from From Latin causa, meaning 'cause' or 'reason' — the same root behind 'because' and 'excuse.' The '-ation' suffix turns it into the act or process of causing, a word philosophers and lawyers have leaned on for centuries to separate true cause-and-effect from mere coincidence.
- not correlation
- two things moving together proves nothing by itself
- legal test
- courts ask: but for this, would harm have happened
- hard to prove
- ice cream sales and shark attacks both rise in summer
- hume's problem
- we never observe causes, only one event after another