Strictly speaking, these causes and consequences as motives of action are also never defined to the end, but work in potentially ever new interpretation until they are forgotten; and as then misunderstood relics even longer.
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CLAUSEN, Lars (ed.), 1983. Einführung in die Soziologie der Katastrophen. Bonn: Osang. Zivilschutz-Forschung, Bd. 14. ISBN 978-3-7894-0090-2, p. 42.
the motive for an Action
is what causes distinctions to come into existence, and since in Smalltalk different kinds of distinctions are modeled by different kinds of classes, it clearly follows that revealing our intentions in an expressive manner also implies creating classes for the distinctions we perceive. -- Valloud, A Mentoring Course on Smalltalk, p. 127.
Causality wikipedia 
(also referred to as causation, or cause and effect) is 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 partly responsible for the effect, and the effect is partly dependent on the cause. In general, a process has many causes, which are also said to be causal factors for it, and all lie in its past. An effect can in turn be a cause of, or causal factor for, many other ef