Sentence examples for instrumental causes from inspiring English sources

In the Platonic view, however, the material and formal causes are only subservient or instrumental causes.

Thus, the occurrence of all the usual factors (substrate causes, non-substrate causes, general instrumental causes, etc).

The Naiyāyikas try to capture this idea by saying that one of the instrumental causes is the 'special' (asādhāraṇa) cause of the effect, and they call it the 'karaṇa'karaṇa

Intuitively, the idea is that, even if we have the substrate cause (the pot-halves), the non-substrate cause (the contact between the halves), and even some of the instrumental causes (the potter, etc)., we will not get the effect (the pot) unless the potter acts or 'operates' to bring it about.

The inexorable drive of instrumental reason causes this distorted picture to be seen as the only true picture of the world (Horkheimer 1947a p. 33).

A rival school of thought offers a more instrumental cause.

Shiva is the first cause: his shakti, or power, is the instrumental cause, maya the material cause.

The world, because it is created by God (efficient cause) through his conscious power (instrumental cause) and maya (material cause), is no illusion.

Here's Thomas Aquinas: "... the original sin of all men was in Adam indeed, as in its principal cause, according to the words of the Apostle (Romans 5 12): "In whom all have sinned": whereas it is in the bodily semen, as in its instrumental cause, since it is by the active power of the semen that original sin together with human nature is transmitted to the child".

This system of causes (with the addition of the instrumental cause as a sixth) became standard in later Neoplatonism.

Any other causal factor is called an instrumental cause, for example, the weaver's shuttle or the weaver herself.