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sufficient cause [3] causality [4]

Definition

""If x is a necessary cause of y; then the presence of y necessarily implies that x preceded it. The presence of x, however, does not imply that y will occur.""
Wikipedia contributors, ""Causality,"" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Causality&oldid=88995105 (accessed November 27, 2006).

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