causal links
Cause and effect
Causal links are connections between events or conditions where one brings about another—the relationship between cause and effect.
The term appears in scientific, philosophical, and legal contexts where establishing that A actually produced B matters: Researchers found causal links between smoking and lung cancer.
Proving causal links requires more than correlation; it demands evidence that one thing genuinely caused the other.
- relationshipConnection between entities
- effectResult of a cause
- moderatorsThose regulating discussions
- consequenceResult of an action
- outcomeFinal result of events
ripple effects · counterfactuals · mediators · factor · smoking gun · chain reactions · knock-on effects · chain of events · mechanisms · determinism · science · evidence · decision trees · necessary condition · contingency · butterfly effect · tipping point · slippery slope
causal linkscoincidence
Unplanned matching of events
correlation · happenstance · co-occurrence · concomitance · simultaneity
causal linksindependence
Freedom from external control
disconnection · unrelatedness · isolation · separateness · disjunction
causal linksrandomness
Lack of predictable pattern
chance · random occurrence · indeterminacy · pure luck · chaos
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