1. Mill’s definition of ‘the cause’ (A System of Logic, III, v. 3) and J. L. Mackie’s definition of ‘a cause’ (Amer. Phil. Quart. 2 (1965) 245), respectively.
2. At the outset of the play, Molière himself shows some sympathy for virtus dormitiva. “Un julep hépatique, soporatif et somnifère, composé pour faire dormir Monsieur” is the only item on the apothecary’s bill which Argan pays for in full and without complaint.
3. Details of the sort that the woodcutter concocts when forced in Le Médecin malgré lui to give a cause of the impediment to the action of the tongue by which he has initially explained Lucinde’s muteness (Act II, scene 6).
4. Causality and Retribution’, Philosophy of Science 8 (1941) 533–556; also Society and Nature, London 1946.
5. The Child’s Conception of Causality.