vera causa

Meanings

1. 1
   phrase

   a real, independently established cause invoked to explain a phenomenon

   Darwin sought a vera causa, a cause already known to operate in nature, for the origin of species.

Latin vera causa, literally "true cause". In philosophy of science the phrase names a cause known from independent evidence, not merely a convenient assumption.

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