The phrase "adequate cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal, philosophical, or scientific contexts to refer to a sufficient reason or justification for an action or event.
Example: "The court found that there was adequate cause to proceed with the investigation into the allegations."
Alternatives: "sufficient reason" or "justifiable cause".
This does not by itself seem adequate cause for dejection among the literati.
If the Rakkasans had initiated fire without adequate cause, then, on some level, hadn't the driver been murdered?
The federal agents had more than adequate cause, based upon the information supplied by Nilsen, to suspect that Antoniole was engaged in felonious activities on the farm premises.
His first step is to draw a basic distinction between activity and passivity: "I say that we are active when something takes place within us or out of us, of which we are the adequate cause, ie when from our nature something follows either within us or out of us, which can be clearly understood by that nature alone.
Although many Americans, and far more Europeans, will not see this as adequate cause to go to war -- if President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair choose that option -- the report appears clearly intended to make a strong case for the urgent return of inspectors to Iraq and for the necessary pressure to force Iraqi cooperation with their work.
The case was decided, not upon the particular nature of the title of the bonds and coupons asserted by the states of New Hampshire and New York, since it was conceded that, but for the Constitution, a title such as that propounded would have given rise to an adequate cause of action.
"Adequate Causes and Natural Change in Descartes's Philosophy," in Human Nature and Natural Knowledge, ed.
Spinoza, admittedly, allowed that we may be adequate causes of some of our affects, and took all our emotions to involve judgments.
Nevertheless, Spinoza's emphasis on self-esteem and, in his ethical theory, on self-knowledge suggests that to the extent we are able to bring about effects, including our own emotions, as whole or adequate causes of those effects we are better off.
Active joy, which must include at least some types of warranted self-esteem, and active desires, among which Spinoza lists at IIIp59s tenacity (animositas) and nobility (generositas), are wholly active however; that is, they are emotions and desires that people have only insofar as they are adequate causes, or genuine actors.
Although a lack of adequate cause-specific mortality information at the population level is often noted and regretted, particularly in Africa and Asia, it is not always clear how the situation might be remedied in practical terms (1).
