Summary: Causality

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• 2 Definition

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• How to make real influences on a thing?

  To make the thing depend upon it in someway

• 3 Evidence

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• What are the three evidences

  1. External experience
  2. Internal experience
  3. Internal and external
     

• Give an example of internal and external experience

  Doctor healing a patient by prescribing correctly some medicine

• 5 Order of nature

• What is the order of nature and causal action

  Causes can either be earlier in time or correlative and simultaneous

• 6 Causeality distinct from condition

• What is a condition (2)

  
  

  • A prerequisite or disposition for causality to occur

  
  

  • Something merely auxiliary which make possible or impedes (hinder) the action of a cause

• 8 Causality distinct from principle

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• 8.1.2 Per accidens

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• Three examples on the part of the effect

  1. The removal of an obstacle
  2. A fortuitous (by chance) secondary effect
  3. A temporal coincidence
     

• 9 Four causes

• 9.1 Why study causality

• 4 answers to why study causality

  
  to understand:
  

  1. what is it
  2. what is it made of
  3. Where did it come from
  4. Where is it going
     

• 9.2.1 Formal cause

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• Substantial forms & accidental forms in formal causality

  
  Any form is a cause, in relation to the matter it informs
  because it gives that matter the actuality of a determinate way of being

• 9.2.2 Material cause

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• What are the 3 characteristics of material cause

  1. Indeterminate;
  2. passive potential principle (shape is deduced from the potency of matter)
  3. remaining within the effect
     

• Prime matter and material causality

  The persistent substratum which remains through substantial change