Nature: A Final Cause in Aristotle's Physics

ause yield that result always or for the most part? If the answer is "no," the particular cause does not yield that particular result always or for the most part, then the process by which the cause yielded the result is not teleological. It is coincidental. If the answer is "yes," the particular cause does yield that particular result always or for the most part, then the process by which the cause!
             yielded the result is teleological. The process does not yield the result by luck or chance; it is not coincidental.
             Aristotle provides an example of a coincidental process in Physics ii, 5, 196b33-197a6. To paraphrase, Aristotle describes person A going to a certain place for a certain reason. Person B owes A money and is at A's destination when A gets there. However, A did not know B would be there, and therefore, A had no intention of collecting the debt from B when A decided to go to that certain place. A does collect the debt from B at that certain place, and that is a good result, but since A's intentions were not to collect the debt from B when A went through the process of arriving at the certain place, the process of the debt collection is purely coincidental. Only if A had known B would be at the place and A planned t
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