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- noun Alternative spelling of
first cause .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause
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Examples
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They are not without that which we call a First Cause, and they name it Anyambia, which missionary philologists consider
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Supreme Being, whom they call the First Cause -- that is the nearest
The Skylark of Space Lee Hawkins Garby 1922
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I'm looking for "that majesty which philosophers call the First Cause."
Jon Foreman: Vice Verses: Making Art Out of Tension Jon Foreman 2011
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I'm looking for "that majesty which philosophers call the First Cause."
Jon Foreman: Vice Verses: Making Art Out of Tension Jon Foreman 2011
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I'm looking for "that majesty which philosophers call the First Cause."
Jon Foreman: Vice Verses: Making Art Out of Tension Jon Foreman 2011
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So what you need to understand is we do have an nth point of consciousness from which the profundity and enormous beauty and intelligence of life has its First Cause, which is a very big bang, or preferably A Very Big Bang.
'Twas ever thus ... Frank Wilson 2007
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The First Cause is a physical substance, some material thing, which operates by the laws of its own nature.
The Necessity of Atheism David Marshall Brooks
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On the other hand, any adequate account of the world other than downright materialism includes the concept of some original Being which, whether it be called First Cause, or Absolute, or God, is in its nature and existence really distinct from the world.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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It is consistent with fear, also with necessity; for a voluntary act is yet necessary as having a cause which is a link in a chain of causes up to the First Cause, which is God.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910
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Mengs does not succeed in rising above this empiricism of the studio, save to declaim about the beauty of nature, virtue, forms, and proportions, and indeed everything, including the First Cause, which is the most beautiful of all.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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