":(b) in another sense, the form or pattern; that is, the essential formula and the classes which contain it—e.g. the …"

":(c) The source of the first beginning of change or rest; e.g. the man who plans is a cause, and the father is the ca…"

":(d) The same as "end"; i.e. the final cause; e.g., as the "end" of walking is health. For why does a man walk? "To b…"

":(e) All those means towards the end which arise at the instigation of something else, as, e.g., fat-reducing, purgin…"

"With ignorance as proximate cause, volitional formations come to be; with volitional formations as proximate cause, c…"

"Causa latet: vis est notissima."

"Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas."

"Causation is defined by some modern philosophers as unconditional uniformity of succession, e.g., existence of fire f…"

"Since therefore ‘tis possible for all objects to become causes or effects to each other, it may be proper to fix some…"

":(a) in one sense, that as the result of whose presence something comes into being—e.g., the bronze of a statue and t…"