Four types of causes for collective panic are generally recognized.
If past trends in this sector are anything to go by, while there are bound to be a few new rising stars, the familiar household names and types of cause they champion are likely to remain the same.
Also, some accounts of causation distinguish types of causes.
All the four (types of) causes may enter in the explanation of something.
Avicenna stresses that no causal series, in any of the four types of causes, can regress indefinitely.
Thus the student of nature is often left with three types of causes: the formal/final cause, the efficient cause, and the material cause.
The Sarvāstivāda developed an analysis of causal conditioning in terms of intricate interrelations among four types of condition (pratyaya) and six types of cause (hetu).
This objection asserts that it is inappropriate to include the end among the types of causes on the ground that causes are ontologically prior to effects.
The lists of the types of causes, conditions, and results in the Abhidharma discourse of causality vary only slightly from school to school.
We often find in Aristotle and in the literature influenced by him an enumeration of four types of cause: formal, material, efficient and final.
