final cause
Example Sentences
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British actor Julian Sands' final cause of death has been deemed undetermined.
From BBC • Jul. 25, 2023
The next day, Mr. Ketler’s body was taken to the city’s morgue, where the final cause of death was established.
From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2022
The final cause reflected the purpose of the being, or the reason why the sculpture was made in the first place.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
"The final cause and manner of death will be determined based on the outcome of the autopsy," the release added.
From Fox News • Jul. 5, 2021
As far as Aristotle was concerned, as we saw in Chapter 3, causal explanations had four components: the formal cause, the final cause, the material cause and the efficient cause.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
