Sentence examples for intelligible causes from inspiring English sources

Such mass murders of innocent people deliver no coherent messages and advance no intelligible causes.

First, they do not accept Galileo's restriction of possible causes to mechanically intelligible causes.

Plutarch is guided here by the dichotomy between natural and intelligible causes found in Phaedo 97B-99D and Timaeus 68E-69D (Opsomer 1998, 183).

The second, which is developed by Plato in the Timaeus, and is confirmed by the tradition of the "Chaldaeans and Egyptians," investigates into the intelligible causes of heavenly movements.

Man, for Erigena, is a microcosm of the universe because he has senses to perceive the world, reason to examine the intelligible natures and causes of things, and intellect to contemplate God.

The term itself is a derivative from saṃ + jñā, meaning 'to understand,'toto be aware of,' or more appropriately 'to make intelligible' or 'to cause to be understood,' thus indicating the causative function of perception predicates.

As it is the ultimate cause of the complexity of intelligible reality, it is the cause of the delight we experience in form (see V 5. 12).

Reasons, unlike causes, must be intelligible to those for whom they are reasons.

In this way, theology is different from the faith it tries to understand and from the Scripture that offers faith to us.[11] To understand theology as a "science" making faith intelligible, Bonaventure must clarify its material cause.

And, according to Godfrey the abstracted quiddity or intelligible object is really the efficient cause of the possible intellect's actual cognition of that object,just as the object of a sense power is the efficient cause of that sense power's actual perception of its object.

The second main view is that (i) we can have no knowledge (or perhaps even no intelligible conception) of a realm of external causes of our experience, but also (ii) that our beliefs about the material world can still be in general justified and true because their content pertains only to the features and order of our subjective experience.