efficient cause

短语

[医] 基[本原]因

词形变化

efficient causes 复数 efficient causes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The being or event which physically brings about the change or motion that produces another occurrence or thing.

    哲学

    As to its efficient cause, wit owes its production to an extraordinary and peculiar temperament in the constitution of the possessor of it, in which is found a concurrence of regular and exalted ferments, and an affluence of animal spirits, refined and rectified to a great degree of purity.