Sentences with phrase «first efficient cause»

In either case the mind is faced with a conundrum: an endless regress without possibility of finding a First Efficient Cause, or ultimate reason, on the one hand, or an absolutebeginning without necessity, on the other.

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However, since they condition it through their immanence in it, this second sense of efficient causation presupposes the first — namely, that the past occasions are efficient causes of the new occasion because, as data, they are included in, and hence are constituents of, it.

But -LSB-...] to grasp reality as it is, we must return to our pre-scientific and post-scientific knowledge, the tacit knowledge that pervades science -LSB-...] Prior to both science and theology is philosophy, the «science of common experience» -LSB-...] Modern science first excludes a priori final and formal causes, then investigates nature under the reductive mode ofmechanism (efficient and material causes)-LSB-... It is] reason -LSB-... which grasps] the «vertical» causation of formality and finality».

Indeed, the whole notion of «base» and «peaking» comes about because it is efficient to run certain types of plants (e.g., many of those that cause the problem in the first place!)

A weak economy and more efficient vehicles cause oil imports to fall below half of U.S. consumption for the first time in 13 years.

It could be evenly distributed in the global ocean causing an almost imperceptable rise in its temperature well beyond the margin of detection error or it could be rejected by more efficient means of transport from surface to space or by a change which prevents it from ever reaching the surface in the first place.

The Owner first argued that because the water damage was a covered loss, under the «efficient proximate cause» doctrine, the policy coverage should include the resulting mold damage.