Aristotle's four causes—formal cause (essence/definition), material cause (physical substratum), efficient cause (agent of change), and final cause (purpose or end-state)—constitute the complete framework for explaining how things exist and change in the universe.
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“aristotle argues for a what we might call quadrapartite causal nexus basically says there's four ways you explain something”
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