Full Idea
Aristotle's demonstration encompasses more than deductive entailment, in that the explanatory order of priority represented in a successful demonstration must mirror precisely the causal order of priority in the phenomena in question.
Gist of Idea
Demonstration is more than entailment, as the explanatory order must match the causal order
Source
report of Aristotle (Posterior Analytics [c.327 BCE]) by Kathrin Koslicki - Form, Matter and Substance 4.5
Book Reference
Koslicki,Kathrin: 'Form, Matter and Substance' [OUP 2018], p.123
A Reaction
Interesting. I presume this is correct, but is not an aspect I had registered. In Metaphysics his essentialist explanations are causal, so it all hangs together.