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The word "effective" is employed with remarkable versatility, functioning as a gauge of impact and practical success across various fields in literature. It is used to denote the ability of a cause, action, or method to produce its intended result—whether that be in philosophical arguments about causation [1, 2], in practical applications such as advertising and technology [3, 4], or in the realms of art and rhetoric where the potency of expression is measured by its audience’s response [5, 6]. In political, social, and economic discourses, authors often deploy the term to underscore the efficiency or persuasive power of institutions, arguments, or even individual actions [7, 8, 9]. This breadth of usage illustrates a shared belief that success or excellence is inherently linked to the capacity to achieve desired outcomes.
  1. This sort of causal combination we call that of effective causes ( nexus effectivus ).
    — from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
  2. But every effective cause must possess a character, that is to say, a law of its causality, without which it would cease to be a cause.
    — from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  3. Electric signs also have proved effective for coffee advertising.
    — from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers
  4. This means that a 2400 bps modem using MNP-5 may obtain an effective speed of around the double when transferring such data.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  5. Analyze the secret of some effective speech or speaker.
    — from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein
  6. A fine example of one of the most effective tone arrangements; a brilliantly-lit, richly-modelled light mass on a dark background.
    — from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed
  7. Ceremony, he said, is the most primitive and the most effective of all forms of government.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  8. Without them, your commonwealth is no better than a scheme upon paper; and not a living, active, effective constitution.
    — from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
  9. That is what I call effective argument, Mrs. Dr. dear.'
    — from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery

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