Sentence examples for without any ultimate cause from inspiring English sources

There cannot be an infinite succession of causes and effects without any ultimate cause at all, the argument runs, because this would fail to provide any cause or reason for the whole series or causal chain.

These are signs for what any ultimate cause or principle must be like, if it is to be satisfactory as a principle, as something that can be known.

Ockham quotes these texts, and says that although the secular ruler's power is "from the people", yet it is also "from God alone", and not only indirectly (i.e. from God as ultimate cause) but directly, "without intermediary".

Grace, charity, transcendence: I felt them as surely as any believer, even if we differed on the ultimate cause, and yet I had no right words for them".

Whatever the ultimate cause, its belligerency is having the exact opposite of any intended effects.

But, really, the ultimate cause of death was misperceived risk".

What was the ultimate cause of the financial crisis?

The ultimate cause of this mess is Congress, of course.

Future gain may operate at the level of ultimate causes, without figuring at the proximate (i.e. motivational) level.

The suggestion was that because these larger economic and political forces were the ultimate causes of gentrification, it could not be fully addressed without a change in the mode of production.

"The key is finding them, identifying them, and helping them".