Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Cecilia Bembibre, in Mar. 2010
The concept of causality undoubtedly implies a certain level of abstraction that makes it difficult understanding in some cases. To simplify the matter, it can be said that causality is the phenomenon by which causes are related to effects. In other words, causality is the connection that exists between the reasons or causes of certain phenomena or processes and their results or effects. The notion of causality thus implies a permanent relationship between a previous event and its continuation, in addition to thus forming a circle infinite connection between events and events that are generated by each other.
The term causality can be applied to all areas and spaces of life as well as to different scientific disciplines. Causality is used in many studies such as the system of deduction which enables analyze a specific process based on its causes, understand it and perhaps even be able to prevent the following events. Causality is then very useful for science since it establishes certain parameters that can guide the
investigation and facilitate the obtaining of results.Causation is also taken into account at the social, historical and anthropological level. In this sense, the notion of causality assumes that things, phenomena or circumstances that happen throughout history are the product of a set of specific events (voluntary or involuntary) that shape the development of the various communities and that alter more or less measured the course of their stories. Here you can put the example of the French Revolution, event that put on March a lot of consequential events and that were chained in a more or less logic with its development. Causality at the social and human level, however, is not as easily identifiable and measurable as scientific causality since many times the causes or reasons of human processes are much more complex than the empirical ones and natural.
Issues in Causality