You must understand proximate cause first to understand
"causation in fact". Proximate cause is the primary cause of an
injury through reasonable forseeability. This is the legal cause of
a plaintiff's injury. Withouth this cause there is no lega
liability. With Causation In Fact is the "but for" test. With this
cause alone does not grant liability. Proximate is the legal cause
and CIF is the hunch more or less.