Causality
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) The faculty of tracing effects to their causes.
(2): (n.) The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
The philosophic name for the nature of the relation between cause and effect, in regard to which there has been much diversity of opinion among philosophers.