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  • Sementara itu, drummer band Sky Liner dari Semarang, Arso mengatakan, para finalis akan menawarkan karya dan konsep panggung yang berbeda untuk menjadi yang terbaik di hadapan dewan juri nasional.

    ANTARA - Berita Terkini 2009

  • Pada12 Agustus lalu Dewan Juri telah menyeleksikan 8 finalis: 5 untuk bidang Life Sciences, 3 untuk bidang Material Sciences yang memenuhi kriteria dan berasal dari pulau Jawa, Sumatra, Nusa Tenggara Barat hingga Papua.

    Delapan Perempuan Indonesia Finalis Women in Science – Netsains.Com 2008

  • Ada beberapa band siyh,, sama performance dari finalis lomba karaoke and resital,, tapi Hacchan ga inget apa aja.

    mayoineko Diary Entry mayoineko 2007

  • For, as I have often remarked, a final cause does not impel a man by being real, but by being known; causa finalis non movet secundum suum esse reale, sed secundum esse cognitum. 25 Whatever he failed to recognise or understand the first time could have no influence upon his will; just as an electric current stops when some isolating body hinders the action of the conductor.

    On Human Nature 2004

  • Its adherents see in every individual species of animal and plant an 'embodied creative thought,' the material expression of a _definite first cause_ (causa finalis), acting for a set purpose.

    The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid

  • The Council of Trent (l.c. cap. vii), moreover, did not neglect to enumerate in detail the other causes of justification: the glory of God and of Christ as the final cause (causa finalis), the mercy of God as the efficient cause (causa efficiens), the Passion of Christ as the meritorious cause (causa meritoria), the reception of the Sacraments as the instrumental cause

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Causa finalis, or the first cause -- you can't discover that!

    The Road to Damascus August Strindberg 1880

  • Logos the _causa instrumentalis_, while the goodness of God is sometimes added as the _causa finalis_.

    The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour 1861

  • Starting from the axiom that every event has a cause, we have here the _causa finalis_ manifested in the last set of phenomena, the _causa materialis_ and _formalis_ in the first, while the existence of a _causa efficiens_ within the seed or egg and its product, is a corollary from the phenomena of growth and metamorphosis, which proceed in unbroken succession and make up the life of the animal or plant.

    Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • For, in this case, error can have no more serious consequences than that, where we expected to discover a teleological connection (nexus finalis), only a mechanical or physical connection appears.

    The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

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