Nyayasutra verses IV . 1.22 to IV . 1.24, for example, examine the hypothesis that " random chance " explains the world, after these Indian scholars had rejected God as the efficient cause.
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The suksma bhutas combine in different proportions with the radical as its material cause and other bhutas as the efficient cause to form the Mahabhutas; atoms and suksma bhutas cannot exist in the phenomenal state in an uncombined form.
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The Samkhya school of Hindu thought proposes two metaphysical realities, namely Purusha ( spirit ) and Prakriti ( inert primal matter ), then states that Purusha is the efficient cause of all existence while Prakriti is its material cause.
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On the other hand, causality implies in Kepler, according to the Aristotelian conception of physical science, the concrete physical cause , the efficient cause which produces a motion or is responsible for keeping the body in motion.
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:If by " cause " you mean the efficient cause-- the mechanism in the brain that causes males to move toward females or vice versa-- then no, we really don't understand that well at all.
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When I will that my arm should rise, my volition is the " occasion " or the " occasional cause " of the movement of my arm; the efficient cause of both my volition and the movement of my arm is God.
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For example, the generative actions of his parents can be regarded as the efficient cause, with Socrates being the effect, Socrates being regarded as an enduring object, in philosophical tradition called a'substance', as distinct from an action.
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It takes its form from wood ( its material cause ); the tools and carving technique used to make it ( its efficient cause ); and the design laid out for it ( its " eidos " or embedded information ).
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" Nor do beings exist ( in reality ) in Me Behold My Divine Yoga supporting all beings, but not dwelling in them, I am My Self, the efficient cause of all beings . -Bhagavad Gita IX . 5.
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Instead of the immediate creation " ex nihilo ", both works postulate a series of emanations of mediums between God and the universe; and both consider God as the first cause only, and not as the immediate efficient cause of the world.
