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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / a. Final purpose

2280	Many causes are quite baffling, so it is absurd to deduce causes from final purposes [Descartes]
	Full Idea: God can make unnumerable things whose cause escapes me, and for this reason alone the entire class of causes which people customarily derive from a thing's "end", I judge to be utterly useless in physics.
	From: René Descartes (Meditations [1641], §4.55)
	A reaction: anti-Aristotle

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / c. Conditions of causation

2272	There must be at least as much in the cause as there is in the effect [Descartes]
	Full Idea: There must be at least as much in the cause as there is in the effect.
	From: René Descartes (Meditations [1641], §3.49)