Sababu

Sababu ni jambo linalokuwa mwanzo au chanzo cha lingine. Sababu huweza kufasilika kama ushawishi ambao tukio moja, mchakato, hali, au kitu huchangia katika uzalishaji wa tukio jingine; mchakato, hali, au kitu huweza kusababisha athari katika jambo au kitu hicho. Mara nyingi sababu huleta athari, na athari yoyote hutegemea sababu. Sababu huweza kuchangia kuleta jambo au kitu chanya au hasi Compare: Bunge, Mario (1960) [1959]. Causality and Modern Science. Nature. Vol. 187 (3, revised ed.) (published 2012). pp. 123–124. Bibcode:1960Natur.187...92W. doi:10.1038/187092a0. ISBN 9780486144870. S2CID 4290073. Retrieved 12 March 2018. Multiple causation has been defended, and even taken for granted, by the most diverse thinkers [...] simple causation is suspected of artificiality on account of its very simplicity. Granted, the assignment of a single cause (or effect) to a set of effects (or causes) may be a superficial, nonilluminating hypothesis. But so is usually the hypothesis of simple causation. Why should we remain satisfied with statements of causation, instead of attempting to go beyond the first simple relation that is found?

Kimsingi, katika ulimwengu huu, hakuna kitu kisicho na sababu yake.

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