What does cause and effect mean?

Cause is a person or a thing that gives rise to an action, phenomenon or condition. An effect is a change in a person, thing, phenomenon or condition. The change in a person, thing, phenomenon or condition is the result or consequence of a cause too, because a person or a thing is a cause.

 

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This means that effect is a change

in a cause and cause is a change in effect. Therefore, it would be impossible to determine the original cause or the original effect. The first cause or the first effect can never be determined. It is similar to the chicken and egg conundrum, whether the egg came first or the chicken