Contextualizebeta

causationist

noun

Etymology

From causation + -ist.

  1. derived from causāre
  2. derived from causer
  3. inherited from causen
  4. derived from *kaussā✻
  5. derived from causa
  6. derived from cause
  7. inherited from cause
  8. suffixed as causation — “cause + ation”
  9. suffixed as causationist — “causation + ist”

Definitions

  1. One who believes in a first cause.

    • That which is "morally good (correct, right)" will have the same meaning, in most cases, for the Causationist ( or Determinist ) as it does for the Libertarian or Compatibilist .

  2. Pertaining to causationism.

    • However , the inability to incorporate such a view of " the good " into a Causationist analysis of morality is not a problem for Causationism.
    • Emerson's doctrine of the Soul, which the Divinity School Address opposes to that of the Church, is also causationist, since the soul " causes " and speaks to us in one language only " that of cause and effect " ( CW 2:37 , 168 ) .

  3. Pertaining to a belief that something (violent behavior, neurosis, etc) is caused by…

    Pertaining to a belief that something (violent behavior, neurosis, etc) is caused by specific social conditions (violent media, poor parenting, etc).

    • That ecological trend adhered to causationist arguments.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for causationist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA