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causation
Philosophy; General philosophy
A relation between two events, a cause and an effect, the cause preceding or occurring simultaneously with the effect. Minimally, "a caused b" entails both the counterfactual conditional "all else ...
first cause
Philosophy; General philosophy
A cause whose causality is absolutely independent of any other cause or being, and on which all other causality depends.
formal cause
Philosophy; General philosophy
That through which a thing is made to be what it is. Form.
free cause
Philosophy; General philosophy
A cause which is not compelled to act, even though all the requisite conditions for action are present.
cause, instrumental
Philosophy; General philosophy
An efficient cause which produces an effect in virtue of the power of another cause.
cell fusion
Philosophy; General philosophy
The joining of the membrane of two cells, thus creating a single hybrid cell that contains nuclear matter from both the parent cells.
central state materialism
Philosophy; General philosophy
The theory that takes seriously the causal theory of mind's claim that mental states are those states which are the causes of behavior, but goes on to point out that as in fact states of our brains ...
