The phrase "a positive cause of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing factors or reasons that lead to beneficial outcomes or effects.
Example: "The new policy was identified as a positive cause of increased employee satisfaction."
Alternatives: "a beneficial factor in" or "a constructive influence on".
Ockham appears to have adopted the main elements of Auriol's stance, while Walter Chatton at Oxford and Gerard Odonis and Thomas of Strasbourg at Paris went further and posited a positive cause of predestination in the elect, which would appear to approach the condemned Pelagian doctrine.
Thus Auriol thought he could avoid charges of Pelagianism by simply denying a positive cause of predestination in the elect.
For Auriol, while someone's obstacle to grace is indeed a positive cause of reprobation, the absence of such an obstacle, however, is merely a negative or privative cause of predestination.
On the other hand, Eells' population-relative formulation allows us to make more precise causal claims: in the population as a whole, smoking is a mixed cause of lung cancer; in the sub-population of individuals who lack the gene, smoking is a positive cause of lung cancer; in the sub-population consisting of individuals who possess the gene, smoking is a negative cause of lung cancer.
It is one thing to ask whether C is causally relevant to E in some way; it is another to ask in which way C is causally relevant to E. To say that C causes E is then potentially ambiguous: it might mean that C is causally relevant to E; or it might mean that C is a positive cause of E. Probabilistic theories of causation can be used to answer both types of question.
The results of numerous empirical studies show the existence of a positive cause-effect relationship between production processes and perceived effects on the environment.
Although a positive identification and cause of death had yet to be determined, investigators charged McGee with first-degree murder in December 2013.
TGF-β (2 ng/ml) used as a positive control caused a 585% increase of Smad2C phosphorylation compared to basal 5 mM.
In particular, the lack of a statistically significant measurable impact in the long-term might partly be due to a Hawthorne effect, i.e. a positive effect caused by participants' awareness of being observed and monitored, which however doesn't last with time.
But if it's in beef, no one would expect that the steak they are eating would cause a positive test of clenbuterol".
High versus low manipulated desire for conspicuousness (MC) and manipulated desire for rarity (MR) conjoined with high versus low chronic desire for conspicuousness (CC) and chronic desire for rarity (CR) moderates the typically hypothesized negative main effect of price on demand and may cause a positive main effect of price on luxury brand choice across a relevant range of price-points.
