This role of matter can be contrasted to the causal role of the three further types of causes of form, of efficient cause, and of final cause respectively.
The causes of the final Texian victory at San Jacinto can't be directly attributed to the battle of the Alamo, at least not in a military sense.
The causes of poor final visual acuity were multifactorial (Table 1).
In Seeing Voices (1989), Sacks explored the experiences of deaf people; in The Mind's Eye (2010), he returned to disorders of vision, a subject rendered highly personal for him by the loss of vision in one eye to a retinal melanoma, the ultimate cause of his final illness.
Actual ground war, as against preparing for it, was an unlikely prospect at best, opposed by almost all of the allies and expressly precluded by President Clinton, but it consumed Clark's thinking for the rest of the war, and was the cause of his final, irreversible estrangement from Washington.
She came to be regarded as the protecting goddess of the Senate, and her statue in the Curia Julia (originally set up by Augustus in memory of the Battle of Actium) was the cause of the final combat between Christianity and paganism toward the end of the 4th century.
We demonstrated that the preanalytical conditions were the principal cause of the final analytical errors, as the analyzers were identical.
Briefly, the DDS is based on 5 donor clinical variables: age, history and duration of hypertension, cerebrovascular disease as cause of death, final creatinine clearance, and number of HLA mismatches.
He is quite happy with explanations of natural phenomena by means of efficient causes in general, but he will also often speak of final causes: what is unclear is whether the final causes he speaks of (with varying degrees of strength in different works) have any explanatory role to play that cannot be reduced to efficient causality (Adams 1998; cf. Goddu 1999).
He sums up his teleological argument as follows: Aquinas notes that the existence of final causes, by which a cause is directed toward an effect, can only be explained by an appeal to intelligence.
