Even though free will is an 'uncaused' directional force towards a planned effec. From Wordnik.com. [Brain Blogger] Reference
Moreover, this "something" must itself be uncaused. From Wordnik.com. ["These people are coming after me personally, something I have not done. They're coming after me personally the way the libs do."] Reference
It cannot merely be a matter of her will being uncaused. From Wordnik.com. [Metaethics] Reference
Hence, there must be something whose necessity is uncaused. From Wordnik.com. [Cosmological Argument] Reference
But in truth, everything happens spontaneously and is uncaused. From Wordnik.com. [Flower Heads and Grain] Reference
Quantum fluctuations are a known example of an uncaused effect. From Wordnik.com. [Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?] Reference
No need for a singularity as uncaused cause of low entropy state. From Wordnik.com. [The Arrow of Time in Scientific American] Reference
An unmoved mover, uncaused, pure being, transcendent and eternal. From Wordnik.com. [Why someTHINGS and not noTHINGS at all?] Reference
The universe is an uncaused existence, or it was caused by something before it. From Wordnik.com. [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference
The falseness of uncaused or "self-caused" will has nothing to do with behavior genetics. From Wordnik.com. [Free Will and Behavioral Genetics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Well, no; my point was that an “infinite string of causes” is not itself an uncaused cause. From Wordnik.com. [A Fine-Tuned Multiverse] Reference
Philosophy and theology solved this problem by positing an uncaused cause, Aristotle's prime mover. From Wordnik.com. [Critique of MDT] Reference
If sub-atomic particles are "free," then I would guess it's in the first sense of being "uncaused.". From Wordnik.com. [A Biologos Position] Reference
How could you ever prove to skeptic like me that the universe came into being uncaused from nothing?. From Wordnik.com. [Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?] Reference
In his famous 'Apology' he desired to know what Paine thought 'of an uncaused cause of everything, and a. From Wordnik.com. [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference
This mode may be declared in this one expression: "The divine essence is uncaused and without commencement.". From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
Tracing back all efficient causes in the universe will lead to a first efficient cause, which is itself uncaused. From Wordnik.com. [Guess Who Was At The Party?] Reference
IMO your claim that something can come into existence uncaused from absolute nothing falls into this latter category. From Wordnik.com. [Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?] Reference
But science had never solved this problem; originality seemed always to enter upon its career, uncaused and unaccountable. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
This example displays “uncaused motion” without, Norton argues, any violation of Newton's laws, including the First Law. From Wordnik.com. [Causal Determinism] Reference
(De fato, 44 B.C.), laughing at Epicurus for introducing the swerve because it was uncaused, and an uncaused event was ridiculous. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
I am the cause, but not the whole or sole cause of these physical disturbances in external nature: I am a cause but not an uncaused cause. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge] Reference
You are contrasting freedom with causation which is patently absurd; it implies that I am free to the extent that my actions are uncaused. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
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