| 单词 | defective cause |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdefective cause 5. Philosophy and Theology. Designating a cause which is of the nature of a failure or deficiency; chiefly in defective cause. Cf. deficient adj. 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > types of cause efficient cause1393 conjunct causec1400 final causec1400 meritorious cause1526 matter1570 deficient cause1581 effectrix1583 formal cause1586 material cause1586 final cause1587 conservant cause1588 efficient1593 effective1610 defective cause1624 proximate cause1641 the world > existence and causation > causation > [adjective] > of or relating to types of cause nigh1551 next1581 procatarctical1601 procatarctic1603 objective1620 defective1624 univocala1640 proximate1641 propinque1649 proxime1649 proegumene1650 proegumenal1656 con-causal1660 proegumenical1663 propinquate1665 proegumenous1676 synectical1697 proegumenic1711 proximous1724 proximal1828 synectic1869 monocausal1937 1624 N. De Lawne tr. P. Du Moulin Elements Logick 60 Under the Efficient cause we comprehend the cause which is called Defective [Fr. defaillante]. As the want of sight is the cause of going astray. 1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 195 Albeit Gods wil be the effective and predeterminative cause of the substrate mater of sin, yet it is no way a defective or moral cause of sin. 1843 T. R. Birks First Elem. Sacred Prophecy xi. 271 Its defective cause, the unbelief of the Jews, was foreknown. 2014 T. M. Schmaltz in L. M. Jorgensen & S. Nelands New Ess. Leibniz's Theodicy vii. 150 I take Leibniz to hold that a privation requires an appeal to a defective cause, and that something actual can derive only from an actual efficient cause. < as lemmas |
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