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Uncaused

Uncaused \Un*caused"\, a. Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal.
--A. Baxter.

Wiktionary
uncaused

a. spontaneous, unintended and uninitiated

WordNet
uncaused

adj. having no cause or apparent cause; "a causeless miracle"; "fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune"; "we cannot regard artistic invention as...uncaused and unrelated to the times" [syn: causeless, fortuitous]

Usage examples of "uncaused".

We might be optimistic about doing this, because the best current science of nature, quantum physics, is standardly interpreted as postulating uncaused events.

This was interventionist choice, or the full-scale uncaused intervention of the Real Me into the physical and neurophysiological order of events.

This is no unconnected misery, Nor stands uncaused, and irretrievable.

You never once made a choice or acted in a way that was uncaused or defied the laws of behavior.

In neither case is the action of the intellect uncaused or a chance event.

Reasoning back by indubitable steps we come to an uncaused, unlimited, infinite Being, the underived and eternal source of all that is.

Freedom of the Will, is that volitions are themselves uncaused and are, therefore, alone fit to be the first or universal cause.

But, even assuming volitions to be uncaused, the properties of matter, so far as experience discloses, are uncaused also, and have the advantage over any particular volition, in being, so far as experience can show, eternal.

They present slavery virtually as uncaused, a tragedy, rather than a wrong perpetrated by some people on others.