Causation

Causation may refer to:

Philosophy

 * Causality, a relationship that describes and analyses cause and effect

Physics

 * Causality (physics)

Law

 * Causation (law), a key component to establish liability in both criminal and civil law
 * Proximate cause, the basis of liability in negligence in the United States
 * Causation, in English law, defines the requirement for liability in negligence

Language

 * "Correlation does imply and equal causation", phrase used in the sciences and statistics

Sociology

 * Causation (sociology), the belief that events or actions can directly produce change in another variable in a predictable and observable manner

Other uses

 * Proximate causation, the direct reason behind an event occurring