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  2. Compensation (essay) - Wikipedia

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    The essay addresses the topic of karma or cause and effect. Emerson contends that everywhere in nature there is dualism. Dualism is present within us because it balances life instead of having excess to destroy. Opposites like action/reaction, day/night, up/down, even/odd and spirit/matter are used to balance the universe.

  3. Causality - Wikipedia

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    Causality is an influence by which one event, process, state, or object (a cause) contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (an effect) where the cause is at least partly responsible for the effect, and the effect is at least partly dependent on the cause. [1]

  4. Humean definition of causality - Wikipedia

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    also fixed eight general rules that can help in recognizing which objects are in cause-effect relation, the main four are as following: (1) The cause and effect must be contiguous in space and time. (2) The cause must be prior to the effect. (3) There must be a constant union betwixt the cause and effect.

  5. The Bedford Reader - Wikipedia

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    The eleventh edition of the book is composed of over seventy essays, one short story, and one poem. It is divided into eleven sections by the various methods of development: narration , description, example, comparison and contrast , analysis, process analysis , classification , cause and effect , definition , argument and persuasion , along ...

  6. Essay - Wikipedia

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    The defining features of a "cause and effect" essay are causal chains that connect from a cause to an effect, careful language, and chronological or emphatic order ...

  7. Causal reasoning - Wikipedia

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    Causal reasoning is the process of identifying causality: the relationship between a cause and its effect.The study of causality extends from ancient philosophy to contemporary neuropsychology; assumptions about the nature of causality may be shown to be functions of a previous event preceding a later one.

  8. Climate change - Wikipedia

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    Natural forces cause some variability, but the 20-year average shows the progressive influence of human activity. [2] Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth’s climate system.

  9. Causes of climate change - Wikipedia

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    At latitudes closer to the poles, there is a cooling effect as forest is replaced by snow-covered (and more reflective) plains. [68] Globally, these increases in surface albedo have been the dominant direct influence on temperature from land use change. Thus, land use change to date is estimated to have a slight cooling effect. [69]