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Ideas for Peter Geach, Gottfried Leibniz and Aristotle

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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
11252 The 'form' of a thing explains why the matter constitutes that particular thing [Aristotle, by Politis]
11253 A 'material' cause/explanation is the form of whatever is the source [Aristotle, by Politis]
13107 Causes produce a few things in their own right, and innumerable things coincidentally [Aristotle]
5219 Types of cause are nature, necessity and chance, and mind and human agency [Aristotle]
19425 In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 3. Final causes
8332 The four causes are the material, the form, the source, and the end [Aristotle]
5059 Power rules in efficient causes, but wisdom rules in connecting them to final causes [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
561 Is there cause outside matter, and can it be separated, and is it one or many? [Aristotle]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation
5861 People assume events cause what follows them [Aristotle]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / c. Conditions of causation
588 We exercise to be fit, but need fitness to exercise [Aristotle]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation
634 Pure Forms and numbers can't cause anything, and especially not movement [Aristotle]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
14543 When a power and its object meet in the right conditions, an action necessarily follows [Aristotle]
2117 The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [Leibniz]
12702 Causes can be inferred from perfect knowledge of their effects [Leibniz]