Description Quote by Duncan J. Watts

“This is called the theory of narrative causality and it means that a story, once started, takes a shape. It picks up all the…

— Terry Pratchett

To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or…

— Karl Popper

“Humans demand explanations, and so when we invent stories we make sure that every detail has an explanation. But life isn't like that. Sometimes…

— Matthew Rave

“The prominence of causal intuitions is a recurrent theme in this book because people are prone to apply causal thinking inappropriately, to situations that…

— Daniel Kahneman

“What is the difference between describing ‘how’ and explaining ‘why’? To describe ‘how’ means to reconstruct the series of specific events that led from…

— Yuval Noah Harari

A Past cause, creates a Present effect, which is a cause for a Future effect.

— YourMaj3sty

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do…

— Carl Jung

“Prediction and explanation are exactly symmetrical. Explanations are, in effect, predictions about what has happened; predictions are explanations about what's going to happen.”

— John Rogers Searle

“The fact is that gossip, rumors, mythmaking, and news stories are not appropriate vehicles for the communication of nuances of truth, those subtle tonalities…

— Chaim Potok

“Whenever there’s a problem B, we assume that event A caused it. The financial crisis is caused by bankers; the loss of jobs is…

— Jurgen Appelo

The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere in life…

— Carl von Clausewitz