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Aristotle and Cause.
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Aristotle and Cause Some of the questions that Aristotle wanted to answer were to do with the nature of things, their substance. What does it mean for something to exist? What give objects their characteristics? What is it about for example of a table that gives it its table ness and what makes it this table, rather than any other one? For Aristotle the form or something was not some kind of abstract ideal as Plato had believed but was found within the item itself. Its form was its structure and its characteristics, the form of an object can be readily perceived with the senses. Aristotle used the word substance in many different ways making it one of the most difficult concepts but one of the ways he used it was to express the material of which things are made. So the substance of the table is wood, glue and...
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