Meaning & use
Acausal
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Not involving or produced by a cause-and-effect relationship.
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Some interpretations of quantum mechanics describe certain particle behaviors as acausal at the subatomic level.
The philosopher argued that true randomness would have to be acausal.
A note on using this word
Acausal is often discussed in physics and philosophy when questioning whether every event must have a preceding cause.
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noncausal
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