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Aristotle defined science before Decartes redefined science. To Aristotle all objects had 4 causes. Material/form/(I forget) and final cause.
Take a piece of chalk: material = white chalk, form = cylinder, (I forget), and final cause = to be used on a chalk board.
Descartes said we need to dismiss the 3rd and 4th cause from science.
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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