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Act, Potency, and the Four Causes

The Aristotelian apparatus the analytic mainstream mostly dropped, restated in terms a powers theorist can already recognise

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This rung already has its place in the Metaphysics ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.

Will defineact and potencypure actualityfour causesmaterial causeformal causeefficient causefinal causeimmanent teleologyprinciple of proportionate causality
Assumesdispositioncausal powerhylomorphismmatter and formsubstanceessencecausation

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