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What Are Aristotle's Four Causes, and How Are They Related

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What are Aristotle's Four Causes, and how are they related to each other? Do you believe that this is a correct view of causation or not? Justify your answer in each case.


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Tabula Rasa

(Latin.) In Locke, the “blank tablet” metaphor of the mind, in opposition to the doctrine that there are innate ideas. In other words, the mind is a “blank” at birth, and everything we know must be “stamped in” through experience.

Innate Ideas

Innate Ideas are concepts or knowledge presumed to be present in the mind at birth, not derived from experience but innate in the human mind.

John Locke

A 17th-century English philosopher known for his work in political philosophy, empiricism, and social contract theory.

Two-Worlds Assumption

The philosophical concept that reality is divided into two distinct realms or worlds, such as the physical and the spiritual, or the empirical and the ideal.

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