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1first cause — index derivation Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2First Cause — Theol. God. [1895 1900] * * * In philosophy, the uncreated or self created cause to which every series of causes must ultimately be traced. Used by ancient Greek thinkers, the concept was adopted by the Christian tradition and became the basis of …
3first cause — /fɜst ˈkɔz/ (say ferst kawz) noun a cause which does not depend upon another: God is the first cause …
4first cause argument — One of the classic arguments for the existence of God. Every event in the natural world has a preceding cause. But this opens up a regress of causes stretching back forever in time. To stop the regress we must postulate a first cause, and this… …
5First Cause — noun Philosophy a supposed ultimate cause of all events, which does not itself have a cause, identified with God …
6first cause — noun That which causes everything else; the ultimate creative force or being behind the universe, identified with God by such Christian thinkers as . Syn: first mover, prime mover …
7first-cause argument — /ferrst kawz /, Philos. an argument for the existence of God, asserting the necessity of an uncaused cause of all subsequent series of causes, on the assumption that an infinite regress is impossible. Cf. cosmological argument. * * * …
8first cause — noun Date: 14th century the self created ultimate source of all being …
9first cause — Первопричина …
10Cause — • Cause, as the correlative of effect, is understood as being that which in any way gives existence to, or contributes towards the existence of, any thing; which produces a result; to which the origin of any thing is to be ascribed Catholic… …
