- or
changes in nature. The four
causes are the:
material cause, the
formal cause, the
efficient cause, and the
final cause.
Aristotle wrote that "we do not...
- efficient, and
final "
causes". In this case, the "
cause" is the
explanans for the explanandum, and
failure to
recognize that
different kinds of "
cause" are being...
-
Simplicius argues that the
first unmoved mover is a
cause not only in the
sense of
being a
final cause—which
everyone in his day, as in ours,
would accept—but...
-
argument from contingency; the
argument from degree; the
argument from
final cause or ends ("teleological argument").
Aquinas expands the
first of these –...
- both the
activity of
building and the form of the
final house are actualities,
which is also a
final cause or end. Then
Aristotle proceeds and
concludes that...
-
function of its
cause.
James Wood, in his
Nuttall Encyclopaedia,
explained the
meaning of
teleology as "the
doctrine of
final causes,
particularly the...
-
Failure causes are
defects in design, process, quality, or part application,
which are the
underlying cause of a
failure or
which initiate a
process which...
- purpose, goal') is a term used by
philosopher Aristotle to
refer to the
final cause of a
natural organ or entity, or of
human art.
Telos is the root of the...
-
material cause are
subject to cir****stance, the formal,
efficient and
final cause often coincide because in
natural kinds, the
mature form and
final cause are...
- formal, material,
efficient and
final causes. The
formal cause of
beauty is the p****ion of love; the
material cause concerns aspects of
certain objects...
