- efficient, and the
final.
Aristotle wrote that "we do not have
knowledge of a
thing until we have
grasped its why, that is to say, its
cause."
While there...
- 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...
-
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...
-
writings of
Plato and Aristotle. Aristotle's 'four
causes' give
special place to the
telos or "
final cause" of each thing. In this, he
followed Plato in seeing...
- or '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...
- and
final cause of all that exists. It is the pervasive, infinite,
eternal truth,
consciousness and
bliss which does not change, yet is the
cause of all...
- 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...
