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Feb 2024

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Ep. 335: Aristotle on Fundamental Explan...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey

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Continuing on Aristotle's Metaphysics, book 1. We get seriously into Aristotle's four types of causation and how previous philosophers in leaving out one or most of these made a mistake. This includes a critique of Platonic forms, which as eternal, unchanging patterns can't actually explain why change occurs in the world.

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