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Nice points! I am going off my own reflections from here on so please take it with a grain of salt I am not sure how we can claim that relationships b...

Hm, I’m not sure. It seems like there really is a clear connection between the actions of the parent and the birth of the child, much more so than the...

Hi! Returning with a confusion towards this specific definition we concluded on: how does this explain efficient causes? Would the parent not be consi...

Cool, I’ve been slowly gathering this as the thread continued, I’m surprised it took this long to get explicated. Thanks!! It really does clear up a l...

thanks for these references! I will totally use them to investigate further. Is one other way to put it that we should not confuse a part of a thing a...

fair enough, thanks for your contributions :)

Wouldn’t gravity be a perfect example of one?

To me, causality does seem prior to time itself, as time seems entirely reliant on more basic and general ideas of order and necessity, but I understa...

Sure, this feels like it’s clearing things up. So taking the assumption I’m making from the other commenter, if a cause necessarily leads to its effec...

Ok this explanation as made the most sense to me. Idk if get down with the non-reality of numbers but this part is what matters to me. As a cause, it ...

Hold on, this doesn’t feel unanimously agreed upon. Aristotle speaks of a certain priority in which two things exist contemporaneous to each other yet...

I can get why they’re not efficient causes at least, but I’m trying to grasp this in the same lens that the Aristotelian tradition considered the genu...

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As I understand it, efficient cause is what describes the coming-to-be or creation of one distinct thing by another distinct thing. What Plato mention...

Hi friends, I'm back and centered in on the precise part of this commentary that discusses the part I'm confused on. This commentary does somewhat enl...

Superb, thank you so much. I'll look into this now and see if it can resolve my confusion. I swear I googled for something like this a million times a...

I appreciate the resource. I do wish it had a little more clarity on this exact issue though. I am less interested in the absoluteness of ideas behind...