A Critical Evaluation Of Aristotle's Conception Of Causality

A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF ARISTOTLE’S CONCEPTION OF CAUSALITYABSTRACTCausality has been variously defined, and even given an empirical understanding. Causality is derived from the term “cause which means anything capable of changing something else or that which “produces something (makes something happen; bring about the occurrence of something) without which that thing would not have resulted. That which is produced (or changed) is called the effect and the effect is explained by it cause. Nevertheless, in the treatment of causality Aristotle in his first philosophy or metaphysics gave a holis…