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6. What is the Efficient cause?

  • the cause of an object or thing existing
  • what gives the matter its forms/ structure
  • rejects that Plato existed, rejected that there was a God

7. What are the problems with the prime mover?

  • it is teleological and doesn't go according to the rules of the cosmological argument
  • relationship between primemover and prime mover= unclear, prime mover is transcendent and cannot interact in the universe but God activity is usually represented differently, is there a final cause or purpose to the universe?
  • rejects that Plato existed, rejected that there was a God

8. What is the Final cause?

  • rejects that Plato existed, rejected that there was a God
  • the reason why something is the way it is
  • what gives the matter its forms/ structure

9. What does the word 'empirical' mean?

  • philosophy which a claim/view is supported by observable evidence you can study
  • Knowledge that is innate
  • A different dimension

10. What does the work teleological mean?

  • ultimate reason why the thing exists
  • refers to the final goal or purpose of something
  • doesn't look at the consequences