Sentence examples for cause conceived from inspiring English sources

Since at least the time of Aristotle (384 322 bce), many Western philosophers have made use of the notion of end, or final cause i.e., a cause conceived of as a natural purpose or goal (see teleology).

But causal theorists may deny that claim about the temporality of causes, conceiving intention as the simultaneous, sustaining cause of what one is doing (Thalberg 1984, pp. 257 8).

Instead, variation was assumed to be abundant, and its cause was conceived as anonymous mutations that change eye form in an unspecified way.

In addition to the material, formal, final and efficient causes he conceives a creative cause (Petrizi, Opera II, prop. 75, p. 136).

Verrycken (1990, 218) interprets Ammonius' conception of the relation of God and the world as based on the Neoplatonic 'procession' (God's production of the world) and 'reversion' (its direction toward God as final cause), with God conceived as the divine Intellect.

Likewise, we need not discard the concept of mutation as a mass-action force: there are realistic scenarios in which a mass-action pressure of mutation is the properly conceived cause of some effect, such as the loss of a gene [ 61], or the mutational cost of excess DNA in Lynch's theory for increased genome sizes in species with small populations [ 40].

Causes are often conceived of as being difference makers, in that a variable (i.e., an entity or activity in a mechanism) can be deemed causal when a change in the value of that variable would counterfactually have led to a different outcome (see the entry on scientific explanation).

The action of the First Cause must therefore be conceived as exempt from any mediation.

Reasons that cause agents to act in the physical world would be conceived of as causes in a very different sense than ordinary physical causes.

And their cause was won: the condo, conceived at 17 stories by its developer, the Brodsky Organization, now tops out at 7. Other such battles have had different outcomes.

Hume, in A Treatise of Human Nature (1739 40), rejected the reality of cause and effect as ordinarily conceived, arguing that belief in particular causal connections could not be justified rationally but could be explained psychologically as the product of mere "habit" and the "association of ideas".