英语释义

• the act of causing something to happen

片语

matter(Matter)人名；(英、法)马特；(西)马特尔

slopslide causation坍坡成因

causation theory成因理论

consideration考虑；原因；关心；报酬

Investment Causation投资动因

Backward causation逆因果

appearance外貌，外观；出现，露面

occurrence发生；出现；事件；发现

indirect causation间接因果关系

imputable causation归罪因果关系

downward causationIn philosophy, downward causation is a causal relationship from higher levels of a system to lower-level parts of that system: for example, mental events acting to cause physical events, The term was originally coined in 1974 by the philosopher and social scientist Donald T. Campbell.

legal causation法律上的因果关系

Adequate Causation相当因果关系

emergence出现，浮现；发生；露头

英汉例句

• Even if the correlation were not spurious, it would be difficult to know which way causation ran.

  即使这个联系不是错误的，也很难知道这种因果关系是以哪种方式运行的。

• Now, as I said last time, the subject of free will--or free will, determinism, causation and responsibility, this cluster of problems-- is an extremely difficult and complicated physical problem.

  正如我上次所说的,自由意志这个主题或者说自由意志,决定论,因果论,责任,这一堆问题,是极端困难和复杂的物理问题

• So, in fact, not only is gravity unintelligible as we saw last time many philosophers at the time wanted to say, actually even mechanical causation is pretty unintelligible too.

  事实上，我们上节课提到过，当时很多的哲人都提出万有引力是晦涩难懂的，即便是机械论的因果关系也是非常难理解的。

• The paradigm is sort of a standard thought about efficient causation is a mechanical contact.

  这个图表是关于因果关系的标準思想,内容都与机械学相关。

• Though this may be true, it is unlikely that any reasonably successful theory of causation would support the Cartesian distinction between two different kinds of substance, mind and matter.

  也许这话说得有道理，但是任何一种关于因果性的成功理论都不会支持笛卡尔将心灵和物质区分为两种实体的做法。

• Very importantly for understanding causation in Hume which we will come to next time.

  这对于休谟关于因果关系的理解非常重要，我们在下次予以讨论。

• But if we take David Hume's view of causation then the position is very different.

  但是当我们采纳大卫·休谟关于因果关系的看法时，其地位还是很不一样的。

• Actually if you take a Humean view of causation what looks like a really serious problem for Descartes actually goes away.

  事实上，如果你采纳休谟关于因果关系的观点，那么对于笛卡尔来说便是一个非常严肃的问题了，实际上我们并没有采纳。

• Much of the second half is taken up with the devilishly tricky business of trying to extract causation from correlation.

  下半部分的大部分内容处理的是努力从相关性引出因果关系这种特别微妙的做法。

• Furthermore, the question of causation could be put far more sharply.

  此外，因果关系的问题可以提得更尖锐。

• But it remains to be that our evidence for causation is always a correlation.

  但是我们对因果的证据，还是相关性。

• Seems very hard to understand; now this is a real problem for Descartes because Descartes thinks causation is ultimately intelligible.

  这似乎很难理解，这对于笛卡尔来说，这真是个问题，因为他认为因果关系最终还是可以理解的。

• Our belied on causation is just our habit in mind.

  我们相信因果关系只是我们头脑中的习惯。

• But even so we tend our evidence for causation tends to rest on a correlation.

  但是即使这样，我们也倾向我们对因果关系的证据，倾向剩下的相关性。

• We should understand causation in terms of one thing bashing into another.

  我们应该根据某物对另一物体的撞击来理解因果关系。

• He thinks we ought to be able to make sense of causation as for example when he says that any cause must have as much perfection or reality as its effect.

  他认为关于因果关系，我们是能够说得通的，举个例子来说，笛卡尔提出，任何起因都必须像结果一样既完美又真实。

• We think that the only way we can learn about causation is from past experience and we want to know what ground we have for extrapolating from past experience to the future.

  我们对因果关系加以学习的唯一途径来自于过去的经验，我们想要知道什么样的范畴，可以从过去的经验中推断出未来。

相似词

antecedent先前的；（语法）先行的

causality因果关系

cause引起；使遭受

occasion引起，惹起

reason推论；劝说

相反词

aftereffect后果；余波；[数] 后效

aftermath（Aftermath）《空难余波》（电影名）

consequence结果；重要性；推论

corollary推论；必然的结果

development发展；开发；发育；住宅小区（专指由同一开发商开发的）；[摄] 显影

effect产生；达到目的

fate命运

fruit(Fruit)人名；(法)弗吕；(英)弗鲁特

issue发行；流出；造成…结果；传下

outcome结果，结局；成果

outgrowth结果；副产物；自然的发展；分枝；生长晕

product产品；结果；[数] 乘积；作品

result结果；导致；产生

resultant合力，合成速率；结果

sequel续集；结局；继续；后果

sequence按顺序排好

upshot结果，结局；要点