Full Idea
The word "cause" can be added to a language in which are already represented many causal concepts; a small selection: scrape, push, wet, carry, eat, burn, knock over, keep off, squash, make, hurt.
Gist of Idea
The word 'cause' is an abstraction from a group of causal terms in a language (scrape, push..)
Source
G.E.M. Anscombe (Causality and Determinism [1971], p.93)
Book Reference
'Causation', ed/tr. Sosa,E. /Tooley,M. [OUP 1993], p.93
A Reaction
An interesting point, perhaps reinforcing the Humean idea of causation as a 'natural belief', or the Kantian view of it as a category of thought. Or maybe causation is built into language because it is a feature of reality…