ARISTOTLE - keywords
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- Created on: 12-02-14 20:07
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- ARISTOTLE
- a posteriori
- knowledge gained after experience
- inductive reasoning
- A method of reasoning by which a conclusion is reached by linking observations of cause and effect
- empiricism
- All true knowledge comes through sense experience
- causation
- Something which brings about a result, linking to Aristotle's Four Causes
- potentiality
- Capacity for growth, development or coming into existence
- actuality
- The way in which something currently exists
- motus
- The process of continual change
- telos
- The Greek word for "end" or "result" of a process or course of action
- the four causes
- Causes Aristotle identified which explain why a thing or object exists as it does
- Material - what is it made of ? Formal - what are it's characteristics? Efficient - how was it made/how did it happen? Final - what is it's purpose/function
- Causes Aristotle identified which explain why a thing or object exists as it does
- the prime mover
- The unchanging cause of all that exists
- a posteriori
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