causality http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85021459 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D015984 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C82552 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Causality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179289 BD530-BD595 The relating of causes to the effects they produce. Causes are termed necessary when they must always precede an effect and sufficient when they initiate or produce an effect. Any of several factors may be associated with the potential disease causation or outcome, including predisposing factors, enabling factors, precipitating factors, reinforcing factors, and risk factors. causation epistemology