What Does Consequential Mean?
Consequential means having significant results or issues, for example ‘a consequential law’ or ‘a consequential decision’. Consequential is the adjective form of the noun consequence. Consequence is best described as a phenomenon that is caused by the phenomenon immediately preceding it. It may also mean the outcome or result of a particular event. Consequential damages refer to those damages that are awarded in a civil action suit to the plaintiff who claims that the terms or conditions of a particular agreement or contract were not honoured. In philosophy, Consequentialism concerns what would happen as a result of an act that is already done and considers the act itself to be of little consequence. It is a term coined in 1958 in the essay ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’ by G.E.M Anscombe.
