Sentence examples for efficient cause from inspiring English sources
noun
The being or event which physically brings about the change or motion that produces another occurrence or thing.
He is what Aquinas humbly calls "the First Efficient Cause of things".
God is viewed as both the material and efficient cause of the universe.
Bhaskara viewed brahman as both the material and the efficient cause of the world.
Shiva is seen as the sole reality and both the material and efficient cause of the universe.
God is viewed as the efficient cause, and human deeds produce their results under the control and cooperation of God.
So the material cause of all these phenomena is the exhalation, the efficient cause sometimes the upper motion, sometimes the contraction and condensation of the air.
Because every efficient cause must itself have an efficient cause and because there cannot be an infinite chain of efficient causes, there must be an immutable first cause of all the changes that occur in the world, and this first cause is God.
This is the efficient cause.
In short, composition requires an efficient cause.
On the contrary, an efficient cause can also be internal.
So, Reid seems forced to say that I am the efficient cause of the exertion to do the cartwheel.
