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12755 | Final causes can help with explanations in physics [Leibniz] |
Full Idea: Final causes not only advance virtue and piety in ethics and natural theology, but also help us to find and lay bare hidden truths in physics itself. | |
From: Gottfried Leibniz (On Nature Itself (De Ipsa Natura) [1698], §04) | |
A reaction: This rearguard action against the attack on teleology is certainly aimed at Spinoza. The notion of purpose still seems to have a role to play in evolutionary biology, but probably not in physics. |
2396 | Reductive explanation is not the be-all and the end-all of explanation [Chalmers] |
Full Idea: Reductive explanation is not the be-all and the end-all of explanation. | |
From: David J.Chalmers (The Conscious Mind [1996], 1.2.2) |