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efficient cause
noun
, Aristotelianism.
- cause8b
efficient cause
noun
- philosophy that which produces an effect by a causal process Compare final cause See also cause
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Thus she was the efficient cause, as Nelson claimed, that many thousands of Austrians escaped capture.
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It is vain to seek for an efficient cause for the bad will; we have to do, not with anything efficient, but with a deficiency.
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The natural world exists and subsists from the spiritual world, just as the effect exists from the efficient cause.
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The reason was now obvious, the capital flaw was detected, the sickness of the body politic traced at last to its efficient cause.
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If the further question be asked, What was the efficient cause of their evil will?
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