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Uncaused

adjective
1.
Having no cause or apparent cause.  Synonyms: causeless, fortuitous.  "Fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune" , "We cannot regard artistic invention as...uncaused and unrelated to the times"





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"Uncaused" Quotes from Famous Books



... the hard-pressed advocate of the doctrine of uncaused volition is usually, that, argue as you like, he has a profound and ineradicable consciousness of what he calls the freedom of his will. But Hume follows him even here, though only in a note, as if he thought the extinction of so transparent ...
— Hume - (English Men of Letters Series) • T.H. Huxley
... true, provided the universe is an effect, but that is a postulatum without concession and without a proof. This original Being he advances in another place to be that only something which existed uncaused from all eternity, and which could not have been a Being, like a man or a table, incapable of comprehending, itself, for such existences would require another superior Being. But if the universe is not adopted as an effect, if it ...
— Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever • Matthew Turner


Words linked to "Uncaused" :   unintended


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