Beyond Mrs. Migliore's hearing, he said: "People giving very concrete estimates of survival can in essence cause as much harm as good.
Surely, the penalty for flagrantly jeopardizing the lives and safety of others should be greater than that imposed on those who, in essence, cause inconvenience to a special, albeit limited segment of the population.
Called "living dunes," these dunes move away from Lake Michigan as the sand from the windward side blows over them and falls on the leeward side, in essence causing the dune to move inland.
A study by Professor Ulf Muller-Ladner from Giessen raised the intriguing possibility that synovial fibroblasts can migrate from joint to joint, in essence causing synovitis to metastasize.
Comte's "law of the three stages" maintained that human intellectual development had moved historically from a theological stage, in which the world and human destiny within it were explained in terms of gods and spirits; through a transitional metaphysical stage, in which explanations were in terms of essences, final causes, and other abstractions; and finally to the modern positive stage.
As Gabbey (1996) puts it, experimentation "cannot uncover the nature of things; sensory knowledge belongs to the imagination, the knowledge of essences and causes to the intellect alone" (Gabbey 1996, p. 171).
If to cause something to exist is to cause its essence to be exemplified, then in causing (5) and (6) to exist, God causes them to exemplify being true he makes them true.
However, he does so by knowing his essence as a cause, and that is possible only by knowing "something (aliquid) through a cause, not merely by knowing that which is the cause (i.e., God)".
Spinoza is emphatic that modal ascriptions have reasons behind them: "A thing is called necessary either by reason of its essence or by reason of its cause" (Ip33s1).
In essence, sitting can cause the disease process".
