Aristotle's Four Becauses
- 1 July 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy
- Vol. 49 (190) , 385-399
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031819100063324
Abstract
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.Keywords
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