Aristotle Chapter 3 Keywords Flashcards
empiricist
Someone who believes all knowledge is ultimately based on sense experience
Per genus et per differentia
Latin for through Type and difference
Aristotle’s method of defining things
Efficient cause
What brought it about could be mechanical human biological chemical or other processes
Material cause
What is made of.
material of the object
Formal cause
What form does it have e.g shape
Transcendent
Beyond our everyday experience of the world
Immanent
Present in our world of normal experience
Purposive
Assumes that something that a goal or reason for being
Final cause
A things purpose, the reason something exists
Teleology
Term to describe any theory in which everything is related to its goals or purpose
Prime mover
Aristotle’s god , indifferent to the universe
Fallacy of composition
The error of thinking that is true for the part is true of the whole
