Sentence examples for prior causing from inspiring English sources

It moved slowly over waters it traversed just four days prior, causing upwelling; this is the process in which a stationary storm causes the water temperatures to decrease by bringing the cooler, deeper waters to the surface.

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

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

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.

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.

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).

Avicenna also devotes considerable attention to this objection: "Why is the end considered a prior cause when in fact it is an effect of the other causes?"(Avicenna MH: 220, trans. modified).