Sentence examples for ultimate causes which from inspiring English sources
Most studies have focused on ultimate causes, which mostly involve the reasons why metformin has beneficial effects.
Ockham also criticized the view that God knows future free acts through his own acts of the will as their ultimate cause, which he, like many of his contemporaries and later commentators, treated as Scotus's position (Sent. I.38.1 (582–583).
It is important that the search for such proximate causes of PMS symptoms does not overshadow the ultimate cause, which may be to maximise reproductive fitness.
The world only exists because of an ultimate and supernatural cause which is, as Newton said, "not blind and fortuitous, but very well skilled in Mechanicks and Geometry" (Cohen 1978, 282).
The ultimate cause of death, which does not come quickly, is asphyxiation.
Metaphysics aims at those beings which are the ultimate causes; they are neither a body nor in a body.
In spite of many assays developed in lower organisms, mammalian hepatocytes still represent a compulsory step in the evaluation of toxic compounds because they carry out modifications leading to the production of various metabolites, which are the ultimate causes of toxicity [ 12, 13].
Evolutionary theory is the framework which can expose the ultimate causes behind our moral intuitions.
The extra dimension of biology seeks explanations of biological phenomena in terms of function and evolutionary history, which together are known as "ultimate" causes.
Asher's distinction between agency and cause, however, will discomfort those biologists who confuse it with Ernst Mayr's distinction between ultimate causes (the adaptive why) and proximate causes (the mechanistic/physiological how), which are both testable.
