{{Wiktionary|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 not imply 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

== See also ==

* Causality (disambiguation) * Cause (disambiguation) {{disambiguation}}

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