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Ideas for 'A Puzzle about Belief', 'Nicomachean Ethics' and 'Deriving Kripkean Claims with Abstract Objects'

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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause

5219	Types of cause are nature, necessity and chance, and mind and human agency [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: The accepted types of cause are nature, necessity and chance, and also mind and human agency.
	From: Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1112a28)
	A reaction: Aristotle accepts this traditional analysis, but also has his own four types (material, formal, efficient and final). Presumably 'nature' would be contingent causes. 'Chance' seems the odd one out. 'Mind' seems to imply free will.