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The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. What does that mean? What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before, or we don't have continuity, and we become a little bit disoriented.
Dan Phillips

Meaning of "first cause" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FIRST CAUSE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FIRST CAUSE

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First cause is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FIRST CAUSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Unmoved mover

The unmoved mover or prime mover is a philosophical concept described by Aristotle as a primary cause or "mover" of all the motion in the universe. As is implicit in the name, the "unmoved mover" moves other things, but is not itself moved by any prior action. In Book 12 of his Metaphysics, Aristotle describes the unmoved mover as being perfectly beautiful, indivisible, and contemplating only the perfect contemplation: itself contemplating. He equates this concept also with the Active Intellect. This Aristotelian concept had its roots in cosmological speculations of the earliest Greek "Pre-Socratic" philosophers and became highly influential and widely drawn upon in medieval philosophy and theology. St. Thomas Aquinas, for example, elaborated on the Unmoved Mover in the quinque viae.

Definition of first cause in the English dictionary

The definition of first cause in the dictionary is a source or cause of something. Other definition of first cause is God considered as the uncaused creator of all beings apart from himself.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FIRST CAUSE

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First Amendment
First Amendment of the Constitution
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First and Second Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians
First and Second Manassas
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first born
first cab off the rank
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first couple
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first degree
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first derivative
first edition
First Empire
First Epistle of John
first estate

WORDS THAT END LIKE FIRST CAUSE

andropause
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escalation clause
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opt-out clause
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Synonyms and antonyms of first cause in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «first cause» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of first cause to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of first cause from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «first cause» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

第一个原因
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

primera causa
570 millions of speakers

English

first cause
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पहला कारण
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

السبب الأول
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

первая причина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

primeira causa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রথম কারণ
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Translator English - French

première cause
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Translator English - Malay

Sebab pertama
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Translator English - German

erste Ursache
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Translator English - Japanese

第一原因
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

첫째 원인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sabab pisanan
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Translator English - Vietnamese

nguyên nhân đầu tiên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முதல் காரணம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रथम कारण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ilk neden
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

causa prima
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pierwszą przyczyną
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Translator English - Ukrainian

перша причина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prima cauză
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Translator English - Greek

πρώτη αιτία
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Translator English - Afrikaans

eerste oorsaak
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Translator English - Swedish

första orsaken
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Translator English - Norwegian

første sak
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about first cause

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Dan Phillips
The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. What does that mean? What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before, or we don't have continuity, and we become a little bit disoriented.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FIRST CAUSE»

Discover the use of first cause in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to first cause and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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First Cause
"On an ordinary spring day in 2008, a series of orchestrated explosions sends an already uncertain world into a state of panic.
First Cause Project, Paul West, 2009
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Avoiding the First Cause of Death: Can We Live Longer and ...
Introduction Lgfe Span Extension in Animals and the Concept ofthe First Cause ofDeatlo Those who are not succumbing to coronary heart disease, cancer, or other causes of earlier death will have the privilege to approach the maximum ...
Wulf Drge, 2009
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Man a creative first cause, 2 discourses
I. The phrase "First Cause" is used not in relation to time, but to indicate an independent, originating cause. Note II. I have elsewhere denned cause to be " that which produces change." Cause always implies the exercise of power, with which it ...
Rowland Gibson Hazard, 1883
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On the Great First Cause, his existence and attributes. By Z.
adopt this conviction, we must fall back on the idea of an effect without a cause; and as this is contrary to all philosophy, and shocks our common sense, we abandon it for ever, and accept the alternative that there really is some Being who has ...
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Three-numbered "Ilaha", the First Cause of the Universe
On Islam as a true religion, based on numerical computations.
Asghar bin Ibrahim, 1981
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The argument for the intellectual character of the first ...
I conceive therefore that the nature of the First Cause can be known to us in some small degree through the nature of its effects. It does by no means follow from . this, that what is not observed in the effect does not exist in the First Cause.
George Gilbert Scott, 1870
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Is God the first cause? Also other miscellaneous subjects
Having said so much, and having exceeded the limit which I had prescribed for myself, I will only go back for a moment to my original contention, namely, that the God put forward by Christians of all creeds cannot be the First Cause, and ...
Humanitas (pseud.), 1883
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Commentary on the Book of Causes
4 The second cause, since it is the effect of the first cause, has its "substance" from the first cause. But from that from which something has substance, it also has the "potency," or power, to act. Therefore, the second cause has its potency, ...
Saint Thomas (Aquinas), 1996
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Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and ...
The First-cause Argument Perhaps the simplest and easiest to understand is the argument of the First Cause. (It is maintained that everything we see in this world has a cause, and as you go back in the chain of causes further and further you ...
Bertrand Russell, 1957
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The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology
The typical philosophical atheist or agnostic not only does not believe in God but also does not believe in a necessarily existing First Cause. The typical philosopher who accepts a necessarily existing First Cause is also a theist. Thus, there is ...
William Lane Craig, J. P. Moreland, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FIRST CAUSE»

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New York Wants Google Maps to Discourage Left Turns
“The first cause of death for New York City children under 13 is not gangs, it's not poverty, not violence. It's being hit by cars and trucks. This is ... «CityLab, Jul 15»
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#SDCC15: Teen Wolf Renewed for Season 6; See the Mid-Season …
... with, and distributed by, MGM, in association with Lost Marbles Productions, Inc., Siesta Productions, Inc., First Cause, Inc., and DiGa. «Dread Central, Jul 15»
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The gift that keeps on giving for family businesses
A first cause is emotional and met with high-minded expectations. Yet the process of establishing a charity or contributing to the community ... «Business Spectator, Jul 15»
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New Pinellas County crash data: teen drivers, pedestrian and …
Oddly enough, the first cause that comes to mind — cell phones — actually didn't have all that much to do with the 77 percent rise in distracted ... «SaintPetersBlog, Jul 15»
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Putterman: Why Northwestern baseball is about to end a century …
The first cause for optimism is Allen, who seems like exactly the coach you want running your program: excitable and charismatic but also ... «Daily Northwestern, Jul 15»
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Is "At Will" Employment/Discharge Implacable?
Accordingly, the plaintiff's first cause of action for breach of contract is dismissed. Rejected the cause of action for prima facie tort: New York ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Jul 15»
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Sainsbury's in line for a badgering, a booting and a living wage row
... as the prime minister's former blue sky thinker is certainly one of the country's unlikeliest converts to the first cause (while, if it sells a few more ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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The $30M Tim Burton 'Superman' film you'll never see
His first cause for concern came when Peters told him, “You know why you and me are gonna do a good job on 'Superman?' Cause you and ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
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Legal Learning: Could they be elected today?
Candidate one was a deist, believing in a God of first cause who wasn't involved in human affairs. He welcomed non-Christians to America, ... «Lake County News Chronicle, Jul 15»
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Golden Valley Development, Inc. Announces XytoTest Training …
Cervical cancer remains in Colombia the first cause of cancer mortality and the second cause of cancer incidence among women, despite the ... «CNNMoney, Jul 15»

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