The same motivations apply to causal theories in regard to other sorts of terms.

The causal theory has a difficult time explaining the phenomenon of reference change.

Other published definitions are purely descriptive or embody causal theories.

Similarly, many who avail themselves of magic do so without feeling the need to understand a causal theory behind it.

The faulty guesses that people make to try and explain their thought processes have been called "causal theories".

The press, of course, has its own causal theory: The press drives everything.

According to this approach, it is necessary to break the symmetry at the base of the crude causal theory.

And we could take the causal theory in this way.

The causal theory could be telling us that a belief is only justified when caused (directly or indirectly) by the facts.

This move should call to mind some remarks made in 2.4 about the causal theory of knowledge.