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'Metaphysics', 'Introduction to 'Modality'' and 'Physics'
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature
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'Nature' refers to two things - form and matter [Aristotle]
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Nothing natural is disorderly, because nature is responsible for all order [Aristotle]
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Why are some things destructible and others not? [Aristotle]
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Nature is a principle of change, so we must understand change first [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / a. Final purpose
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Nature has purpose, and aims at what is better. Is it coincidence that crops grow when it rains? [Aristotle]
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Everything is arranged around a single purpose [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes
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Teeth and crops are predictable, so they cannot be mere chance, but must have a purpose [Aristotle]
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A thing's purpose is ambiguous, and from one point of view we ourselves are ends [Aristotle]
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The nature of a thing is its end and purpose [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 3. Natural Function
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Is ceasing-to-be unnatural if it happens by force, and natural otherwise? [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature
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Pythagoreans say the whole universe is made of numbers [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature
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Continuity depends on infinity, because the continuous is infinitely divisible [Aristotle]
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The heavens seem to be infinite, because we cannot imagine their end [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / a. Greek matter
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Matter is perceptible (like bronze) or intelligible (like mathematical objects) [Aristotle]
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Matter is neither a particular thing nor a member of a determinate category [Aristotle]
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Aristotle says matter is a lesser substance, rather than wholly denying that it is a substance [Aristotle, by Kung]
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Aristotle had a hierarchical conception of matter [Aristotle, by Fine,K]
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Substance must exist, because something must endure during change between opposites [Aristotle]
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Matter desires form, as female desires male, and ugliness desires beauty [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter
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Primary matter is what characterises other stuffs, and it has no distinct identity [Aristotle]
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Ultimate matter is discredited, as Aristotle merged substratum of change with bearer of properties [Simons on Aristotle]
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Aristotle may only have believed in prime matter because his elements were immutable [Aristotle, by Alexander,P]
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The traditional view of Aristotle is God (actual form) at top and prime matter (potential matter) at bottom [Aristotle, by Gill,ML]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / e. The One
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It doesn't explain the world to say it was originally all one. How did it acquire diversity? [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements
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When Aristotle's elements compound they are stable, so why would they ever separate? [Weisberg/Needham/Hendry on Aristotle]
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I claim that Aristotle's foundation is the four elements, and not wholly potential prime matter [Aristotle, by Gill,ML]
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds
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Unusual kinds like mule are just a combination of two kinds [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
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The 'form' of a thing explains why the matter constitutes that particular thing [Aristotle, by Politis]
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A 'material' cause/explanation is the form of whatever is the source [Aristotle, by Politis]
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Causes produce a few things in their own right, and innumerable things coincidentally [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 3. Final causes
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The four causes are the material, the form, the source, and the end [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
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Is there cause outside matter, and can it be separated, and is it one or many? [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / c. Conditions of causation
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We exercise to be fit, but need fitness to exercise [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation
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Pure Forms and numbers can't cause anything, and especially not movement [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
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When a power and its object meet in the right conditions, an action necessarily follows [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / d. Knowing essences
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Scientists must know the essential attributes of the things they study [Aristotle]
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