Aristotle's Four Becauses

Max Hocutt

Aristotle's Four Becauses

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Philosophy 49 (190):385 - 399 (1974)

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
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DOI	10.1017/S0031819100063324
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