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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

causally en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English causal Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English causally From causal + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a causal manner.
    • Sometimes the attempt was made to reduce the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general); 2014, Volker Meja, Nico Stehr, Knowledge and Politics:

Deriveds

noncausally · acausally · uncausally

Synonyms

causatively