Aristotle's Four Becauses

Max Hocutt

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Classical Philosophy and Thought Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics Philosophy and History of Science

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What has traditionally been labelled ‘Aristotle's theory of causes’ would be more intelligible if construed as ‘Aristotle's theory of explanations’, where the term ‘explanation’ has substantially the sense of Hempel and Oppenheim, who construe explanations as deductions. For Aristotle, specifying ‘causes’ is constructing demonstrations.

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