No truth is more obviously true than the truth that matter, or something not matter, exists of itself, and consequently is not an effect, but an uncaused cause of all effects.
If God never commenced to be, He is an uncaused existence, that is to say, exists without a cause.
The universe is an uncaused existence, or it was caused by something before it.
According to Calvin, it is the uncaused divine will which makes the “necessity of all things.
If God never commenced to be He is an uncaused existence, that is to say, exists without a cause.
Whoever accepts the universality of the law of causation as a dogma of philosophy, denies the existence of uncaused phenomena.
W] This uncaused cause has its counterpart in the incomprehensible Uncreate of the Athanasian Creed.
The uncaused nature of will has been actually recognised, where it manifests itself most distinctly, as the will of man, and this has been called free, independent.
But on account of the uncaused nature of the will itself, the necessity to which its manifestation is everywhere subjected has been overlooked, and actions are treated as free, which they are not.
If we infer an uncaused cause, we do it, not by logical process, but by virtue of the intuitive belief within us.
An infinite chain has no topmost link (versus Robert Hall); an uncaused and eternal succession does not need a cause (versus Clarke and Locke).
The principle of causality does not require that everything begun should be traced back to an uncaused cause; it demands that we should assign a cause, but not that we should assign a first cause.
God is his own cause," because God is the uncaused Being.
An uncaused act is strictly speaking unthinkable; but do we not affirm that acts are uncaused when we speak of them as free--in other words, is not the only alternative to Determinism what might be called indeterminism?
The theory reminds us of the old idea of the will as something above other phases of nature and so supreme above their influence; it replaces this theory of the uncaused nature of the will by one of the like absolute independence of feeling.
Nor is desert based upon an uncaused character of the will.
The inscrutable nature of God admits of no cause, because causality refers only to what is caused and cannot come to existence without a cause, and not to the uncaused cause of all.
Brahma the uncausing uncaused cause of all, has no causality in him; therefore the meaning of the word world, is something that has no cause whatever.
The uncaused world is the product of nothing, and therefore nothing in itself; for if it be the production of nobody, it is a nullity like its cause also.
There is no testimony of the sastras, nor ocular evidence nor any reasonable inference, to show any material thing to be uncaused by some agent or other, and to survive the final dissolution of the world.
This visible which is so desirable to everybody, is no production of any one; it is an uncaused entity ever existent in the divine mind, from before its production by the mind of Brahma the creator.
I am the cause, but not the whole or sole cause of these physical disturbances in external nature: I am a cause but not an uncaused cause.
McTaggart's Universe are, upon the view of Causality which I {101} attempted to defend in my second lecture, uncaused events.
The new idea does not spring up uncaused and by miracle.
Such ideas do not spring up uncaused and unconditioned in vacant space.
The Existence of a First Cause--An Uncaused Cause.
The Existence of a First Cause--An Uncaused Cause Sec.
All that can be affirmed (even) by the strongest assertion of the Freedom of the Will, is that volitions are themselves uncaused and are, therefore, alone fit to be the first or universal cause.
An uncaused cause, a first cause, alone answers truly to the idea of a cause.
As Mr. Newman truly says, 'A God uncaused and existing from eternity, is to the full as incomprehensible as a world uncaused and existing from eternity.
We believe in action which is uncaused by any prior action; and hence, we can reason from effects up to Cause, and there find a resting-place.
Thus the existence of the Supreme Being is said to be necessary, because he is the uncaused Cause of all things.
Now let us suppose that, in order to escape these difficulties, an advocate of the self-determining power should deny that there is any causative act of volition; but that volition is itself an act uncaused by any preceding act.
As there cannot be, it is alleged, an infinite series of derived or dependent effects, we at length reach the infinite or uncaused cause.
We may choose to call it 'the first cause,' (an explanation which implies that our notion of endless regression has broken down) and we may say that we have reached the notion of an uncaused cause.
The objection that an uncaused volition cannot be a responsible volition depends for its validity on the meaning which we attach to the term 'uncaused.
But, if so, the statement that any particular acts of mind are uncaused ceases to present any character of self-evident absurdity.
Most of us accept this persuasion as almost of the nature of an axiom, and hence the mere suggestion that our own volitions are really uncaused appears to us of the nature of a self-evident absurdity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uncaused" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
