An agent's exercising such control when she acts, it is said, consists in her causing some event (her action, or an event internal to that action).
The following definition of euthanasia was provided on the cover of the questionnaire: "an act which consists in intentionally causing the death of a person with an incurable disease [ 28]".
The causal chain is composed as in Metaph., α, 2, 994 a 1 19 of three elements: the cause (al-ʿilla), and then the effect (or what is caused: al-maʿlūl) and the intermediary or medium (al-mutawassiṭ), which both have a "relationship" to the cause "that consists in being caused" (nisba maʿlūlyya; see section 4.1).
Doing anything well requires virtue or excellence, and therefore living well consists in activities caused by the rational soul in accordance with virtue or excellence.
Similarly, each particular in the world (shi) consists at once in causing and being caused by the dynamic patterning (li) of the totality of all things.
It consists in speech abnormalities caused by neuromuscular disorders.
The final chapter of Book Two affirms the beauty that consists in seeing the causes of those "wonders" which, as the opening of the Metaphysics declares, draw us to philosophy.
This is the Method of Analysis: and the Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discover'd, and establish'd as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.
We find relatives of this suggestion in Becker's argument (1974) that the criminal wrongfulness of crimes consists in their tendency to cause 'social volatility', and in Dimock's argument (1997) that it lies in their tendency to undermine the kinds of trust upon which civic life depends.
