The objections, founded on Sm/ri/ti, against the doctrine of Brahman being the efficient and the material cause of this world have been refuted; we now proceed to refute those founded on Reasoning.
It being the Self only which here is made many, we understand that the Self is material cause as well as operative one.
But they straightway degraded the formal cause to the level of a material causeby declaring that number is the stuff or matter of which things are made.
But the point is that they all recognized the necessity for a material cause of some sort to explain the universe.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "material cause" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.