Sentence examples for prior cause from inspiring English sources

The extreme rhetoric is essentially almost sort of a prior cause for this thing.

Yet the N.F.L.'s collective bargaining agreement prohibits off-season testing without prior cause, he said.

And a prior cause of the cause of that cause.

For any prior cause of the desk, there will always be a prior cause of that cause.

The connection between the two is supplied by John Duns Scotus, who argued that even if the essentially ordered causes were infinite, "the whole series of effects would be dependent upon some prior cause" (Scotus, 46).

Moreover, even when conscious self-awareness is present, it allegedly occurs too late to be the cause of the relevant actions rather than their result or at best a joint effect of some shared prior cause (Libet 1985).

Suppose there are some actual mental differences between men and women, whatever their prior causes.

But this claim is compatible with admission of genuine secondary causes that are reliant for their exercise of causation on the simultaneous activity of prior causes, and ultimately on that of the first cause, God.

Having accepted Kant's view that cause and effect relationships extend throughout the world of experience, he believes that every individual act is determined by prior causes or motives.

An example from the debate over determinism (the view that all our actions are the products of prior causes) and free will: "manipulation cases" have been thought to undermine compatibilist intuitions intuition supporting the notion that determinism is compatible with "the sort of free will required for moral responsibility" (Pereboom 2001).

And if this is so, then all effects owe their existence to prior causes.