final cause
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The leading pathologist said the final cause of death was "not clear" due to the numerous injuries that could have led to Alfie's death.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 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
Houston Fire Chief Samuel Pena said the ATF’s finding is preliminary, and that determining a final cause could take up to two months.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2020
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
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