| 单词 | deficient cause |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeficient cause deficient cause n. that ‘deficience’, failure to act, or absence of anything, which becomes the cause or negative condition of some result. Obsolete.The conception and the phrase (causa deficiens) appear first in St. Augustine, in his discussion of the origin of evil and of God's relation to it, and are connected with his doctrine that evil being nothing positive, but merely a defect, could have no efficient, but only a deficient cause. It was also used by Thomas Aquinas (who distinguished the physical sense of the phrase from the moral); in English it came into vogue during the Calvinistic-Arminian controversy in 16–17th centuries, in reference both to the origin of evil and to the reprobation of the wicked. Cf. defective adj. 5.[ St. August. De Civ. Dei xii. vii, Nemo igitur quærat efficientem caussam malæ voluntatis, non enim est efficiens, sed deficiens; quia nec illa effectio est, sed defectio; deficere namque ab eo quod summum est, ad id quod minus est, hoc est incipere habere voluntatem malam.]extracted from deficientadj.n.< as lemmas |
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