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Ideas for Aristotle, Allan Gibbard and Deborah Achtenberg
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
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A 'material' cause/explanation is the form of whatever is the source [Aristotle, by Politis]
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The 'form' of a thing explains why the matter constitutes that particular thing [Aristotle, by Politis]
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Causes produce a few things in their own right, and innumerable things coincidentally [Aristotle]
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Types of cause are nature, necessity and chance, and mind and human agency [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 3. Final causes
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The four causes are the material, the form, the source, and the end [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
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Is there cause outside matter, and can it be separated, and is it one or many? [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation
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People assume events cause what follows them [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / c. Conditions of causation
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We exercise to be fit, but need fitness to exercise [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation
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634
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Pure Forms and numbers can't cause anything, and especially not movement [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
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When a power and its object meet in the right conditions, an action necessarily follows [Aristotle]
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