The emotional ups and downs around conceiving can cause anger, grief, hopelessness, depression, jealousy, fear and anxiety.
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.
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).
In addition to the material, formal, final and efficient causes he conceives a creative cause (Petrizi, Opera II, prop. 75, p. 136).
For Mach, the most objectionable feature in Kant's philosophy was the doctrine of the Dinge an sich i.e., of the "thing in itself"—the ultimate entities underlying phenomena, which Kant had declared to be absolutely unknowable though they must nevertheless be conceived as partial causes of human perceptions.
Since things are conceived through their causes, and modes are conceived always through the attribute to which they belong, there can be no trans-attribute causation.
Therefore, the DNA binding inhibition is conceived to be caused either by an increased repulsive interaction between the acidic ID segment and DNA or by the association between the acidic and basic ID segments.
For these and similar reasons, the philosopher concludes that God is better conceived of as the cause of all causes involved in the creation of every created thing, not through any intention or aim, but rather through an eternal and essentially changeless process of emanation.
Physics is the science of the motions and actions of physical bodies conceived in terms of cause and effect.
The Marquise of O- begins with a newspaper advertisement by the eponymous noblewoman, asking that the father of the child she conceived "without knowing the cause" present himself.
