Sentence examples for a chain of efficient from inspiring English sources
Looking at a chain of efficient causes, the "finiteness of the causes" (tanâhî l-'ilal) serves for Avicenna as the basis of a proof of God's existence.
Given his commitment to causal synonymy, Aristotle needs to invoke considerations through which a chain of efficient causes of some entity can be meaningfully compared in terms of causal efficacy.
Aristotle claims that in a chain of efficient causes, where the first element of the series acts through the intermediary of the other items, it is the first member in the causal chain, rather than the intermediaries, which is the moving cause (Physics 8.5, 257a10 12).
Quik-Serv's management believes the company has two major competitive advantages: a lean organization with capable, motivated management, and a chain of modern, efficient outlets in good markets and good locations.
According to Avicenna's explanation of creation which al-Ghazâlî was not opposed to being" is passed down from God to the first and ontologically highest creation and from there in a chain of secondary efficient causes to all other existents.
Because every efficient cause must itself have an efficient cause and because there cannot be an infinite chain of efficient causes, there must be an immutable first cause of all the changes that occur in the world, and this first cause is God.
But just as there cannot be an infinite chain of efficient causes, so there cannot be an infinite chain of necessary beings whose necessity is caused by another necessary being.
Our method termed SlideSort finds a chain of common substrings by an efficient pattern growth algorithm, which has been successfully applied in data mining tasks such as itemset mining (Han et al., 2004).
For example, the use of surrogate endpoints has received much attention recently [ 21] and synthesis models have been described which combine information on both intermediate and clinical outcomes using a "chain of evidence" approach [ 22] making efficient use of multiple sources of information.
