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The Four Causes - University of Washington

The Four Causes 1. Aristotle’s doctrine of the four causes is crucial, but easily misunderstood. It is natural for us (post-Humeans) to think of causes in terms of cause-and-effect. This is misleading in several ways: a. Only one of Aristotle’s causes (the “efficient” cause) sounds even remotely like a Humean cause. b.

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