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noahfor · 03-19-2006, 07:34 PM

Is anyone here a big Aristotle buff? If so, can you answer me this:

As rain is not for the sake of corn, but causes the growth of corn incidentally, so are teeth, in that they are not for nutrition but cause it by accident.

Aristotle opposes this view, stating that what happens all and for the most part can not be by accident, but must be by nature and for something.

My question is: "Why either by accident or by nature, and why if by nature then for something?"

And does he also oppose the view that rain causes the growth of corn by accident, and think, rather, that rain is for the growth of corn?

Physics Book 2 Chapter 8

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noahfor Addict	Aristotle question Is anyone here a big Aristotle buff? If so, can you answer me this: As rain is not for the sake of corn, but causes the growth of corn incidentally, so are teeth, in that they are not for nutrition but cause it by accident. Aristotle opposes this view, stating that what happens all and for the most part can not be by accident, but must be by nature and for something. My question is: "Why either by accident or by nature, and why if by nature then for something?" And does he also oppose the view that rain causes the growth of corn by accident, and think, rather, that rain is for the growth of corn? Physics Book 2 Chapter 8 Last edited by noahfor; 03-19-2006 at 07:53 PM..