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explanatory priority
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explanatory priority
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Thomism and presentism
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According to Thomism: That I exist is explanatorily prior to all the other facts about me. Obviously: That yesterday I safely crossed ...
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Monday, April 26, 2021
At least sometimes parts aren't prior to wholes
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Efficient causes are explanatorily prior to their effects. Circularity of explanatory priority is impossible. I am the efficient cause of...
Thursday, March 19, 2020
The four causes and supertasks
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Suppose I make a geologist’s hammer out of a chunk of steel and break a rock with the hammer. Then the chunk of steel is the material cause ...
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