Sentence examples for total cause from inspiring English sources

"There are several links in the chain to find out what the total cause of this accident is," he added.

Since he also assumed that God created the universe, and since motive force was an extra property that is really distinct from matter, he concluded that 'God is the first, universal and total cause of motion' (ibid).

It invokes the metaphysical principle that "there must be at least as much reality in the efficient and total cause as in the effect of that cause" (7:40).

Descartes replied, "by the same kind of causality as he created all things, that is to say, as their efficient and total cause" (Descartes, p. 25).[10] The debate has been greatly influenced by Jean-Luc Marion's interpretation, in La théologie blanche de Descartes, according to which Descartes' position on the matter is fundamental to his metaphysics.

So while Scotus holds that "nothing other than the will is the total cause" of its activity, he grants (with Aquinas and other medieval Aristotelians) that we are not capable of willing something in which we see no good, nor of positively repudiating something which appears to us as unqualifiedly good.

The positive condition (which must also be fulfilled) says that the willing of the action is "literally determined by the agent or self, considered as a substance or continuant, and not by a total cause which contains as factors events in and dispositions of the agent" (1934, p. 214 5; Broad's italics).

Any single cut is small but the sum total causes great pain and the person dies from blood loss.

A total of 10.47 inches of rainfall, the highest total caused by Rick, was recorded in Astata/San Pedro Huameluca, which was near the point where the hurricane made landfall.

The threshold for an epidemic is that it results in more than 7.2percentt of deaths, but so far there is no definitive count of the total caused by flu this year.

Positive and negative agreement, unlike the kappa statistic, is unaffected by imbalances in marginal totals caused by high or low prevalence.

Nevertheless, it is not God who is the total real cause of this vibration.