Cau*sa"tion (?), n. The act of
causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is
produced.
The kind of causation by which vision is
produced.
Whewell.
Law of universal causation, the
theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon
results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or
phenomenon, which being present, the other is certain to take
place.