causingness
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causingness (uncountable)
- (philosophy) The quality or characteristic of being the cause of something.
- 1829, John Stuart Mill, Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind:
- The term Causation, as the author observes, signifies causingness and causedness taken together, but I do not see on what ground he asserts that it connotes present time.