What does causing mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. causing, causationnoun

    the act of causing something to happen

Wikipedia

  1. causing

    Causality (also referred to as 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.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Causing

    of Cause

Editors Contribution

  1. causingverb

    Verb form of the word cause.

    Science is creating much joy throughout the world.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 17, 2020  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. CAUSING

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Causing is ranked #129825 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Causing surname appeared 131 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Causing.

    91.6% or 120 total occurrences were Asian.
    7.6% or 10 total occurrences were White.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'causing' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3117

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'causing' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3104

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of causing in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of causing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of causing in a Sentence

  1. The CDC:

    And when you come, please bring anything that could potentially be causing this infection, especially eye drops, contact lenses or contact lens cases.

  2. British Airways:

    We are expecting adverse weather conditions across parts of southeast England on Thursday, which is likely to affect some of our short-haul flights, we recognize the uncertainty that the bad weather may be causing customers, and have therefore introduced flexible rebooking options for all customers on short-haul flights flying to/from London Heathrow.

  3. Ohio Senate:

    The liberals who sit at Martha’s Vineyard sipping cocktails on their back porch think they're doing nice things for these migrants, they’re not, they're causing them all kinds of misery and horror, and why would you put people through something like that?

  4. Allison Navis:

    While we don't know what's causing these symptoms, they're very real for patients, and we are seeing patients get better.

  5. Qian Zhu:

    Our first concern is insurers don't fully understand the risks involved in what they are investing in because those products are not transparent, those products are also causing liquidity problems for insurers.

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