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Showing posts with label proportionate causality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label proportionate causality. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Per se and per accidens multiplication of causes

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Can there be an infinite sequence of efficient causes? Famously, Aquinas says both “No” and “Yes”, and makes a distinction between a per se ...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

A Thomistic argument for the Principle of Proportional Causality

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The Principle of Proportionate Causality (PPC) defended by Aquinas and other scholastics says that a perfection P can only be caused by som...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Proportionate causality

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Let’s assume for the sake of argument: Aquinas’ Principle of Proportionate Causality: Anything that causes something to have a perfection ...
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