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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

fi′nal cause′, [Aristotelianism.]

PhilosophySee under cause (def. 8b).

1350–1400

'final cause' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

cause - dysteleology - telos

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