self-caused
- a word derived from cause.
Example Sentences
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Is it conceivable the universe was self-caused rather than brought about by a transcendental creator?
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2022
But here the same sort of argument that was brought forward regarding the possibility of matter and its laws being self-caused, comes in as regards life.
From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry
This, as I say, was the notion that haunted me, the link my imagination forged between Sir Eustace Carr's presence in that dark Venetian church, and his self-caused death some years later.
From Trivia by Smith, Logan Pearsall
To believe not only that matter caused itself, but that the different forces and tendencies, and the aims and ends of development, were self-caused, is surely a much more difficult task.
From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry
Can it be believed, then, that protoplasm, as the origin of life, is self-caused, and self-developed?
From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry