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Definition of First Cause
1. Noun. An agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause. "God is the first cause"
Definition of First Cause
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of first cause) ¹
2. Noun. (context: theology philosophy sometimes capitalized) That which causes everything else; the ultimate creative force or being behind the universe, identified with God by such Christian thinkers as Thomas Aquinas. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of First Cause
Literary usage of First Cause
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Persistent Problems of Philosophy: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Mary Whiton Calkins (1912)
"We find him arguing for an ultimate cause which is also a first cause. There must
be a first cause of me — this is the implication of his argument — for if ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"All emanation of being has its original exemplar in the development of the divine
first cause into the hypostases of the Trinity; all fatherhood and sonship ..."
3. Some Dogmas of Religion by John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart (1906)
"The supporters of the necessity of a first cause would argue against this as ...
And this can only be done by asserting the existence of a first cause which ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"1917 (paragraph 3 first cause of action and paragraph 3 second cause of action).
The judgment of the court which finds that the Cleveland Company Is liable ..."
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