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

":(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…"

"Cause means"