| 单词 | vera causa |
| 释义 | ‖ vera causa Philos.|ˈvɛərə ˈkaʊzə|
[L., lit. ‘real cause’.]
A true cause which brings about an effect as a minimum independent agency.
[1687I. Newton Philosophiae Naturalis Princ. Math. iii. 402 Causas rerum naturalium non plures admitti debere, quam quæ & vera [sic] sint & earum Phænomenis explicandis sufficiunt. ]1831J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Discourse ii. vi. 144 To such causes Newton has applied the term veræ causæ; that is, causes recognized as having a real existence in nature, and not being mere hypotheses or figments of the mind. 1865Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. xxiv. 469 By verae causae Newton meant agencies the existence of which was otherwise authenticated. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ii. 67 Inhibition is a vera causa, of that there can be no doubt. 1927B. Russell Analysis of Matter ii. 19 In Newton, ‘force’ plays a great part, and there seems no doubt that he regarded it as a vera causa. 1942R. G. Collingwood New Leviathan xxxiii. 279 Stupidity, I reply, is not a vera causa. If he thought that, I want to know why; and to say ‘because he was stupid’ is not an answer. 1977Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. X. 238 Darwin's commitment to the vera causa—or ‘true cause’—principle. |
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