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Single Idea 11253
[filed under theme 26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
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Full Idea
In the 'material cause/explanation', it is especially important to emphasise Aristotle's view that it is not simply the parent that generates the offspring, but the form of the parent.
Gist of Idea
A 'material' cause/explanation is the form of whatever is the source
Source
report of Aristotle (Physics [c.337 BCE]) by Vassilis Politis - Aristotle and the Metaphysics 2.4
Book Ref
Politis,Vasilis: 'Aristotle and the Metaphysics' [Routledge 2004], p.54
The
21 ideas
with the same theme
[categories of links between successive events]:
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13156
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Fancy being unable to distinguish a cause from its necessary background conditions!
[Plato]
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5219
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Types of cause are nature, necessity and chance, and mind and human agency
[Aristotle]
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11252
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The 'form' of a thing explains why the matter constitutes that particular thing
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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11253
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A 'material' cause/explanation is the form of whatever is the source
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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13107
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Causes produce a few things in their own right, and innumerable things coincidentally
[Aristotle]
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19425
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In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way
[Leibniz]
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8367
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Causation is defined in terms of a single sequence, and constant conjunction is no part of it
[Ducasse]
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15823
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Some propose a distinct 'agent causation', as well as 'event causation'
[Chisholm]
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17689
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Absences might be effects, but surely not causes?
[Armstrong]
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8435
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Causes are between events ('the explosion') or between facts/states of affairs ('a bomb dropped')
[Bennett]
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15253
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If the concept of a cause includes its usual effects, we call it a 'power'
[Harré/Madden]
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15555
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Explaining match lighting in general is like explaining one lighting of a match
[Lewis]
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8388
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Causation is either direct realism, Humean reduction, non-Humean reduction or theoretical realism
[Tooley]
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8389
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Causation distinctions: reductionism/realism; Humean/non-Humean states; observable/non-observable
[Tooley]
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11960
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Singular causation is prior to general causation; each aspirin produces the aspirin generalization
[Molnar]
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4071
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Causation can be seen in counterfactual terms, or as increased probability, or as energy flow
[Crane]
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4789
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Three divisions of causal theories: generalist/singularist, intrinsic/extrinsic, reductive/non-reductive
[Psillos]
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17528
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The dispositional account explains causation, as stimulation and manifestation of dispositions
[Bird]
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16722
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Scholastic causation is by changes in the primary qualities of hot, cold, wet, dry
[Pasnau]
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22605
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Humeans describe the surface of causation, while powers accounts aim at deeper explanations
[Ingthorsson]
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22607
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Time and space are not causal, but they determine natural phenomena
[Ingthorsson]
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