Sentences with phrase «primary efficient cause»

Classically, God's power is seen in terms of omnipotence, and God is creator as the sole primary efficient cause of the world.

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Although Whitehead rejected the Aristotelian notion of substance as a passively receptive, primary substance, and the Spinozistic conception of substance as an eminently real, efficient and material cause, he did not altogether reject the notion of substance.

God becomes the ultimate efficient cause, the primary cause of things, separate from the world with all of its secondary causal processes.

This substrate is a «primary matter,» already present under the perishing form, that passes to a new form of being through the influence of the efficient cause (Phys.

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).

Further, not only must the terms of the listing agreement be satisfied, but the broker must show that he was the primary, predominant, efficient, or procuring cause of the transaction or transfer.