This exclusion may either be founded on the essence of things, or be derived from an external cause.
For whether the act of willing be impressed upon us by an external cause or we bring it about ourselves, it will be equally true that we will, and that we feel that we will.
It may clearly be conceived that a simple being will always act in a uniform manner, if no external cause hinders it.
And we give the name of an impression to those changes, because we have not a name more proper to express, in a general manner, any change produced in a body, by an external cause, without specifying the nature of that change.
Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause; hate is pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
Perception has an external cause, whose influence the mind is not able to withstand.
The permanence of the stone's motion is constrained, not necessary because it must be defined by the impulsion of an external cause.
Love is joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause.
Hatred is sorrow with the accompanying idea of an external cause.
For instance, a stone receives from the impulsion of an external cause a certain quantity of motion, by virtue of which it continues to move after the impulsion given by the external cause has ceased.
Body having now been defined the external cause, and (according to the more reasonable opinion) the hidden external cause, to which we refer our sensations; it remains to frame a definition of Mind.
Body having now been defined the external cause, and (according to the more reasonable opinion) the unknown external cause, to which we refer our sensations; it remains to frame a definition of Mind.
Contrariwise, whatsoever perfection is possessed by substance is due to no external cause; wherefore the existence of substance must arise solely from its own nature, which is nothing else but its essence.
Hence we may lay down the absolute rule, that everything which may consist of several individuals must have an external cause.
For, if substance be produced by an external cause, the knowledge of it would depend on the knowledge of its cause (Ax.
Now voluntary acts belong to principles that are within us, so that they have no external cause.
The fact that sin has an internal cause does not prevent its having an external cause; for nothing external is a cause of sin, except through the medium of the internal cause, as stated.
From this we may gather that whatever is entirely subject to our power and will, is not an object of fear; and that nothing gives rise to fear save what is due to an external cause.
The redness of the rose is not a real external thing, immutably the same in itself; it is only a certain peculiar action on my physiology which the presence of an external cause or object seems to determine.
Nevertheless, it afterwards admits that the belief in the case of persons, has an external cause.
Dislocation usually depends upon an external Cause, and a gentle Dislocation upon an internal.
It is this, that a Wound always proceeds from an external Cause, and an Ulcer from an internal, such as Humours that fall upon a Part; or else a Wound in growing inveterate degenerates into an Ulcer.
What Means are to be us'd in order to cure a Caries proceeding from an external Cause?
Love" is pleasure, accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
But this pleasure or pain is postulated to come to us accompanied by the idea of an external cause; therefore (III.
That, which constitutes the reality of love or hatred, is pleasure or pain, accompanied by the idea of an external cause (Def.
In the fact that it separates the emotions from the thought of an external cause, which we conceive confusedly (V:ii.
But that they should need an external cause at all, is based upon a law whose origin lies demonstrably within us, in our brain; therefore this necessity is not less subjective than the sensations themselves.
The three other senses remain on the whole subjective; for their sensations, while pointing to an external cause, still contain no data by which its relations in Space can be determined.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "external cause" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
