determinant, factor, predictor, criterion, component, arbiter, indicator, impediment, discriminator, prerequisite, predicator, barometer, motivators, yardstick, enabler, measuring stick, litmus test, stumbling block, differentiator, beholder, sine qua non, equation, irregardless, paramount, dictates, hindrance, bugbears, diminishment, obstacle, correlates, element, banes, signifier, reinforcer, regardless, direct correlation, crapshoot, constraining, trumps, hinges, question, gauging, determinations, corollary, influencer, drawback, considerations, ingredient, consequence, stochasticity, variables, divining, byproduct, attribute, discriminant, imponderable, predicates, ceteris paribus, definiteness, equals, definer, constraint, means, quantifier, guidepost, indicia, includable, confounder, hurdle, externality, beneficiary, indictor, guesser, parameter, desideratum, manifestation, inheritability, priori, relatedness, substitutability, intrinsic, mutually exclusive, gigo, typicality, lability, increaser, separability, satisfier, skewness, inductive reasoning, tenet, disproof, stressor, thing, determent, metric, fallacy, underpinning, numerosity, probative, sufficing, tradeoff, determiners, motivator, modifier, referent, motivation, safeguard, incentive, mediator, adjective, precondition, pronoun, qualifier, regulator, adverb, adverbial, accusative, genitive, nominative, partitive, predicative, quantificational, sentential, wh, adjectival, conjunctional, copular, ergative, imperfective, locative, noun, numeral, participial

article, clincher, decisive factor, influence

article, definite article, indefinite article

argument, closed-class word, cognitive factor, function word, statement

causal factor, clincher, determinant, determinative, determining factor