Meaning of efficient cause | Babel Free

Definitions

The being or event which physically brings about the change or motion that produces another occurrence or thing.

natural

Examples

“As to its efficient cause, wit owes its production to an extraordinary and peculiar temperament in the constitution of the possessor of it, in which is found a concurrence of regular and exalted ferments, and an affluence of animal spirits, refined and rectified to a great degree of purity.”

“There must be some efficient cause for each slight individual difference, as well as for more strongly marked variations which occasionally arise.”

“[H]e turned the corner where for years he had always paused; simply not to pause was an efficient cause for emotion.”

“In the production of a statue of Athena for the Parthenon, the bronze is the material cause; the shape and design of the statue is the formal cause; the sculptor is the efficient''' cause; the honor of the goddess (and the glory of Athens) is the final cause.”

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