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さよういん
Meanings
Noun
Philosophy
1. efficient cause (one of Aristotle's four fundamental types of answer to the question "why?")
Alt. forms
作
さ
用
よう
因
いん
さよういん
Pitch accent
さ
よ
ういん
Composed of
さよう
action; operation; process; agency; effect; function
いん
cause; factor; hetu (direct cause, esp. as opposed to indirect conditions); the basis of one's argument (in hetuvidya)