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cause 1. a. a ground for legal action; matter giving rise to a lawsuit b. the lawsuit itself 2. (in the philosophy of Aristotle) any of four requirements for a thing's coming to be, namely material (material cause), its nature (formal cause), an agent (efficient cause), and a purpose (final cause) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I exercise myself in reflection, and consequently with me every primary cause at once draws after itself another still more primary, and so on to infinity. It is impossible to feel sure th at she may not be the cause of some public scandal this time, which may affect her innocent sister as well as herself. For in those things, the being of each of which implies that of the other, that which is in any way the cause may reasonably be said to be by nature 'prior' to the effect. |
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