CAUSALITY (ARISTOTELIAN)
Charles François (2004). CAUSALITY (ARISTOTELIAN), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 374.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 374 ▶ |
| Object type | General information, Epistemology, ontology or semantics |
Just as a useful general reference, the four basic causes Aristotle used to answer all “why?”questions are remembered hereafter:
- material cause
- efficient cause
- formal or formative cause
- final cause
See also
Causality, Determinism, Random processes, Randomness, Time