Sentences with phrase «into efficient causes»

Although serious scientific work was done in terms of Aristotle's metaphysics, especially in biology, the ready appeal to final causes in explaining physical phenomena blocked needed inquiry into efficient causes.

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The reason for this seeming transmutation of evil into good in another - worldly consequent God lies in the fact that Whitehead has not really developed the idea of God as efficient cause.

Physics has had enormous success in explaining why things happen as they do in the natural world, but its modes of explanation do not fit neatly into the four-fold classification of material, formal, efficient, and final causes.

On the one hand, the divine activity is the ultimate grounding for events; it provides the ultimate efficient cause which turns mere possibility into sheer actuality.

And prime matter requires an efficient cause only if it came into being at some point in time or if it lacks in itself the power to sustain its own being.

Efficient causes — the sculptor who transforms a block of marble into a statue of Athena — exist as separate from God but since they are contingent, they too require God as their ultimate cause.

Therefore, this potentiality for integration into future actual entities — that is, this capacity to be an efficient cause — while essential to those future actual entities, does not affect that past actuality itself.

Modern science developed much further by examining efficient causes, that is, what physical causes brought the phenomenon into being.

Several well - armed and efficient military formations are still fighting for Gaddafi's cause, and should they decide to carry the struggle into a guerrilla campaign of attrition then oil installations would become principal targets.

Going into midlife with a sedentary lifestyle causes the heart to stiffen, shrink, and become less efficient at pumping blood and oxygenating the body.

If you believe that people are rational and markets are efficient, this will largely determine your views on gun control (unnecessary), consumer protection laws (caveat emptor), welfare programs (too many unintended consequences), derivatives regulation (let a thousand flowers bloom), whether you should invest in passive index funds or hyperactive hedge funds (index funds only), the causes of financial crises (too much government intervention in housing and mortgage markets), and how the government should or shouldn't respond to them (the primary financial role for government should be producing and verifying information so that it can be incorporated into market prices).

The final tally So what's the total cost of transforming your home into an efficient, water - repelling system that never causes you any sleepless nights?

Many of us are afraid to write about issue that matters most because it is scary to contemplate how much financial misery we have caused with our tolerance of the widespread promotion of Buy - and - Hold strategies (it is the Buy - and - Hold Model — rooted in the long - discredited belief that markets are efficient — that is responsible for studies that fail to take valuations into consideration when identifying safe withdrawal rates).

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