Sentence examples for modes of causal from inspiring English sources

Two dharma instances of the same type would fit into the web of causal conditions in exactly the same way, but would then be distinguished as individual instances on the grounds of their unique degrees and modes of causal efficacy.

An emanative mode of causal activity is one in which the cause includes, in some "eminent" or higher form, what it gives to its effect, without losing the ability to produce the same kind of effect in the future.

[For a classic exposition of these various modes of divine causal involvement see St. Thomas Aquinas, Disputationes de Potentia Dei, Q.3, a.7, resp.] Given that on this traditional account, God is intimately intertwined with the workings of the cosmos, the holiness problem seemed all the more intractable.

Indeed, he thinks the Five Modes can do the work of Causal Modes (that is, call into question causal and explanatory theses and theories).

Fourth, Sextus records a set of Causal Modes (PH 1.180 86), which are specifically targeted toward causal explanations.

If this is so, then their target might include what we would call inductive reasoning and causal explanations (when Sextus introduces a further set of modes, the Causal Modes, he says that they are not really needed, because the relevant work can be done by the Five Modes; PH 1.180 86).

As a whole, considering these questions allows for an assessment of the extent to which the genotoxicity and mode-of-action data support either a causal association between formaldehyde exposure and leukemia or an alternative hypothesis.

Symptomatic treatment regimens were considered inferior to causal modes of treatment.

Now the concurrentist might reply at this point that concurrentists deny overdetermining creaturely causes as well, since their point is that the creature is a concurring cause of the modes of the creature: the causal contribution of neither God nor the creature are redundant, since both are necessary in some manner.

The question is whether explanations or hypothesized causal factors proposed in one realm (e.g., epidemiology) have aspects that should be observable in others (e.g., mode-of-action studies), enabling evaluation of whether signs of those causal processes do or do not appear where expected.

Indeed, many philosophers of mind take modes of presentation to be internal causal or functional roles played by the representations in question.