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According to certain analyses, we may use causal language either in a broad, improper sense to mean complete cause or in a strict, proper sense to mean primary or most significant cause, given some perspective or point of view from which causal primacy or significance can be judged. Ifwe If we keep this distinction in mind, we may be the better able to understand what is and what is not properly meant by the several uses of the particula exclusiva in characteristic Reformation formulations.

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