final cause

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British actor Julian Sands' final cause of death has been deemed undetermined.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2023

Scientists will determine the final cause of death based on pending lab results.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 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

Each final cause leads to another, until we get to the first cause or prime mover.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

In Pascal’s account of why the mercury does not descend in the Torricellian tube the formal and material causes are so attenuated as to be uninteresting, and the final cause has disappeared completely.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton