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Nature, 1924 THE notice which appeared in the issue of NATURE of October 4 of my book, “Cancer: How it is Caused, How it can be Prevented,” contains several misstatements which I must correct. The reviewer puts into my mouth the statement that “cancer is due to constipation and lack of vitamins” as a summary of my teaching, although I have stated in every chapter ...
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Some features of the causal links in different cultures
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2013 This article touches upon the problem of the meaning of causation and its role in forming and functioning of linguistic and cultural map of the world.
E. A. Dolgova
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 BackgroundAlthough several observational studies have attempted to investigate the association between type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and lung cancer risk, the results are controversial.
Tongtong Hong +11 more
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Al-Ghazali And Hume On Natural Causal Necessity And Miracles A Comparative Analysis
الإيضاح, 2021 This paper argues that Al-Ghazali and Hume arrived at similar conclusion rejecting natural causality as a logical necessity; however, they provide very different premises for this conclusion.
Syed Jawad Ali Shah , Shuja Ahmad
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Causation and Misconnections [PDF]
Philosophy of Science, 2004 In this paper I show how the conserved quantity theory, or more generally the process theory of Wesley Salmon and myself, provides a sufficient condition in an analysis of causation. To do so I will show how it handles the problem of alleged ‘misconnections’. I show what the conserved quantity theory says about such cases, and why intuitions are not to
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Common Causes and The Direction of Causation [PDF]
, 2005 Is the common cause principle merely one of a set of useful heuristics for discovering causal relations, or is it rather a piece of heavy duty metaphysics, capable of grounding the direction of causation itself?
Brad Weslake, Weslake, Brad
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Anger elicitation in Tonga and Germany: The impact of culture on cognitive determinants of emotions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 The cognitive appraisal of an event is crucial for the elicitation and differentiation of emotions, and causal attributions are an integral part of this process.
Andrea eBender +4 more
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The Structure of Entrepreneurial Team Members’ Competencies: Between Effectuation and Causation
Education Sciences, 2020 A conscious shaping of entrepreneurial competence is a relevant element of entrepreneurial education. In order to recognize which of the competencies regarded as entrepreneurial are characteristic of members of entrepreneurial teams, which is crucial for
Katarzyna Stankiewicz +3 more
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Utilitas, 2015 I propose an analysis of harm in terms of causation: harm is when a subject is caused to be worse off. The pay-off from this lies in the details. In particular, importing influential recent work from the causation literature yields a contrastive-counterfactual account.
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Computing Integrated Information (Φ) in Discrete Dynamical Systems with Multi-Valued Elements
Entropy, 2020 Integrated information theory (IIT) provides a mathematical framework to characterize the cause-effect structure of a physical system and its amount of integrated information (Φ).
Juan D. Gomez +4 more
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