Clonidine is the generic name of Catapres, a medication used to treat high blood pressure. Clonidine works by slowing down your heart rate and relaxing blood vessels. You can take clonidine alone or in combination with other medications to lower blood pressure. Clonidine is in a class of medications called centrally acting alpha-agonist hypotensive agents.
This means there is a relationship between the two events, hours worked and income and also that a change in one event (hours worked) causes a change in the other (income). This is causation in action! Causation indicates a relationship between two events where one event is affected by the other. In statistics, when the value of one event, or variable, increases or decreases as a result of other events, it is said there is causation.
Themes, Arguments, and Ideas. The Uncertainty of Causation. Hume observes that while we may perceive two events that seem to occur in conjunction, there is no way for us to know the nature of their connection. Based on this observation, Hume argues against the very concept of causation, or cause and effect.