Sentence examples for partial causes from inspiring English sources

For Mach, the most objectionable feature in Kant's philosophy was the doctrine of the Dinge an sich i.e., of the "thing in itself"—the ultimate entities underlying phenomena, which Kant had declared to be absolutely unknowable though they must nevertheless be conceived as partial causes of human perceptions.

I reach for the cup of coffee, I may think, just because the joy that I anticipate in the coffee "pulls" me to it; in fact, however, I reach for the coffee because my characteristic striving (perhaps as a partial cause in combination with other partial causes such as the memory of past cups IIIp36) has that effect.

Second, some patients who apparently have the kind of anomalous experiences hypothesized to be partial causes of delusions do not go on to form delusional beliefs.

If this is the case, then removing the effects of income would "partial causes from effects" and yield an underestimate of the association.

A partial cause of Hildebrand's death was his unfortunate time slot.

Even in our own time, the monarchies of Iran and Ethiopia were the partial cause of their awful successor regimes, rather than the insurance against them.

Some analysts have suggested that TV viewing via the Internet is a partial cause of the channel's declines.

There he told us terrorism is at least the partial cause of the market state, which mirrors it.

On the other hand I say that we are passive when something takes place in us or follows from our nature, of which we are only the partial cause".

In a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) in Washington on Monday the hawkish Republican senator John McCain said the "feckless foreign policy" of the Obama administration was a partial cause of events in Ukraine.

Many economists consider the rial's problems at least a partial cause of Iran's inflation, which is officially around 30 percent but widely believed to be far higher.