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しつりょういん
Meanings
Noun
Philosophy
1. material cause (one of Aristotle's four fundamental types of answer to the question "why?")
Alt. forms
質
しつ
料
りょう
因
いん
しつりょういん
Pitch accent
し
つりょ
ういん
Composed of
しつりょう
matter (in Aristotelianism)
いん
cause; factor; hetu (direct cause, esp. as opposed to indirect conditions); the basis of one's argument (in hetuvidya)