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  1  II, 1 | difficulties are of two kinds, the cause of the present difficulty
  2  II, 1 |           know a truth without its cause; and a thing has a quality
  3  II, 1 |           of things; for it is the cause of the heat of all other
  4  II, 1 |   sometimes true, nor is there any cause of their being, but they
  5  II, 1 |            they themselves are the cause of the being of other things),
  6  II, 2 |        them, the prior must be the cause of the later terms. For
  7  II, 2 |          which of the three is the cause, we should say the first;
  8  II, 2 |          for the final term is the cause of none; nor even the intermediate,
  9  II, 2 |        intermediate, for it is the cause only of one. (It makes no
 10  II, 2 |            is no first there is no cause at all.~Nor can there be
 11  II, 2 |          impossible that the first cause, being eternal, should be
 12  II, 2 |    non-eternal.~Further, the final cause is an end, and that sort
 13  II, 2 |             there will be no final cause, but those who maintain
 14 III, 1 |        matter, any thing that is a cause in itself or not, and whether
 15 III, 2 |           is good is an end, and a cause in the sense that for its
 16 III, 2 |           by means of this kind of cause, nor is there any demonstration
 17 III, 2 |            causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or
 18 III, 2 |          or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils,
 19 III, 3 |   principles. For the principle or cause must exist alongside of
 20 III, 4 |            philosophers mention no cause, and it is unreasonable
 21 III, 4 |         that strife is as much the cause of existence as of destruction.
 22 III, 4 |          love is not specially the cause of existence; for in collecting
 23 III, 4 |        time Empedocles mentions no cause of the change itself, except
 24 III, 4 |         necessary; but he shows no cause of the necessity. But yet
 25 III, 4 |         this is for all things the cause of their being one. Others
 26 III, 6 |     potency is prior to the actual cause, and it is not necessary
 27  IV, 2 |           another as principle and cause are, not in the sense that
 28  IV, 5 |           that the substrata which cause the sensation should not
 29   V, 2 |                                 2~"Cause" means (1) that from which,
 30   V, 2 |             e.g. the bronze is the cause of the statue and the silver
 31   V, 2 |      begins; e.g. the adviser is a cause of the action, and the father
 32   V, 2 |           action, and the father a cause of the child, and in general
 33   V, 2 |         and in general the maker a cause of the thing made and the
 34   V, 2 |       thing is; e.g. health is the cause of walking. For "Why does
 35   V, 2 |            think we have given the cause. The same is true of all
 36   V, 2 |       Again, the same thing is the cause of contraries; for that
 37   V, 2 |             whose presence was the cause of safety; and both-the
 38   V, 2 |            For the letters are the cause of syllables, and the material
 39   V, 2 |            and the material is the cause of manufactured things,
 40   V, 2 |        made; but of these some are cause as the substratum (e.g.
 41   V, 2 |        that include any particular cause are always causes of the
 42   V, 2 |        that include the accidental cause are also causes, e.g. "man"-
 43   V, 2 |            general "animal"-is the cause of the statue, because Polyclitus
 44   V, 2 |         others as acting; e.g. the cause of the house’s being built
 45   V, 2 |            thing may be called the cause of this statue or of a statue
 46   V, 5 |        necessary, and this kind of cause is a sort of necessity.
 47   V, 8 |    predicated of a subject, is the cause of their being, as the soul
 48   V, 12|            certain disposition and cause and principle which fits
 49   V, 17|        movement is, i.e. the final cause); (4) the substance of each
 50   V, 18|          same number of senses as "cause"; for we say indifferently (
 51   V, 18|         inferred?’ or "what is the cause of the inference, or of
 52   V, 18|         man.-(4) That which has no cause other than itself; man has
 53   V, 18|      itself; man has more than one cause—animal, two-footed—but yet
 54   V, 30|          too, there is no definite cause for an accident, but a chance
 55   V, 30|          an accident, but a chance cause, i.e. an indefinite one.
 56   V, 30|        else; for the storm was the cause of his coming to a place
 57  VI, 1 |       being. For, while there is a cause of health and of good condition,
 58  VI, 2 |            nature is and from what cause it proceeds; for it will
 59  VI, 2 |         the principle and this the cause of the existence of the
 60  VI, 2 |        come to be by accident, the cause also is accidental. Therefore,
 61  VI, 2 |            usually is, must be the cause of the accidental. And we
 62  VI, 2 |       accidental is, and from what cause it arises, and that there
 63  VI, 3 |           or destroyed must have a cause which is not accidentally
 64  VI, 3 |            is not accidentally its cause. Will A exist or not? It
 65  VI, 3 |          will have nothing else as cause of its coming to be. But
 66  VI, 3 |    starting-point and what sort of cause we thus refer the fortuitous-whether
 67  VI, 4 |         must be dismissed. For the cause of the former is indeterminate,
 68 VII, 8 |      general. Obviously, then, the cause which consists of the Forms (
 69 VII, 9 |      produced by accident; for the cause of the thing’s producing
 70 VII, 9 |       itself. And so it is said to cause health, because it causes
 71 VII, 13|          be in the fullest sense a cause, and a principle; therefore
 72 VII, 16|        principle" or "element" or "cause", but not even the former
 73 VII, 17|     substance is a principle and a cause, let us pursue it from this
 74 VII, 17|       single reason and the single cause to be given in answer to
 75 VII, 17|         Plainly we are seeking the cause. And this is the essence (
 76 VII, 17|          mover; for this also is a cause. But while the efficient
 77 VII, 17|            But while the efficient cause is sought in the case of
 78 VII, 17|         and destruction, the final cause is sought in the case of
 79 VII, 17|      Therefore what we seek is the cause, i.e. the form, by reason
 80 VII, 17|        element, and that it is the cause which makes this thing flesh
 81 VII, 17|            for this is the primary cause of its being); and since,
 82 VIII, 2|         since its substance is the cause of each thing’s being, we
 83 VIII, 2|           differentiae what is the cause of the being of each of
 84 VIII, 3|      matter. If, then, this is the cause of the thing’s being, and
 85 VIII, 3|          thing’s being, and if the cause of its being is its substance,
 86 VIII, 4|           come from the same first cause or have the same things
 87 VIII, 4|           difference in the moving cause; e.g. from wood may be made
 88 VIII, 4|            the power of the moving cause; for it could not make a
 89 VIII, 4|          the matter and the moving cause were different, the product
 90 VIII, 4|         When one inquires into the cause of something, one should,
 91 VIII, 4|       causes. what is the material cause of man? Shall we say "the
 92 VIII, 4|   menstrual fluid"? What is moving cause? Shall we say "the seed"?
 93 VIII, 4|         say "the seed"? The formal cause? His essence. The final
 94 VIII, 4|             His essence. The final cause? His end. But perhaps the
 95 VIII, 4|        state. What is the material cause? We must name not fire or
 96 VIII, 4|         substance. E.g what is the cause of eclipse? What is its
 97 VIII, 4|        eclipse. What is the moving cause which extinguished the light?
 98 VIII, 4|        light? The earth. The final cause perhaps does not exist.
 99 VIII, 4|            it does not include the cause. E.g. what is eclipse? Deprivation
100 VIII, 4|         formula which includes the cause. In the case of sleep it
101 VIII, 6|            to numbers, what is the cause of their unity? In the case
102 VIII, 6|       beside the parts, there is a cause; for even in bodies contact
103 VIII, 6|           in bodies contact is the cause of unity in some cases,
104 VIII, 6|           question is, what is the cause of the unity of "round"
105 VIII, 6|       agent? For there is no other cause of the potential sphere’
106 VIII, 6|          the question, what is the cause of participation and what
107 VIII, 6|      asking what in general is the cause of unity and of a thing’
108 VIII, 6|        Therefore there is no other cause here unless there is something
109   X, 1 |            if it has in itself the cause of its continuity. A thing
110   X, 1 |         also true of "element" or "cause", if one had both to specify
111   X, 1 |          constituent. And so with "cause" and "one" and all such
112  XI, 1 |            not deal with the final cause (for that is the nature
113  XI, 8 |           that also of which C was cause will exist of necessity,
114  XI, 8 |        range of events. And if the cause be supposed not to exist
115  XI, 8 |          may exist, so it may be a cause, either by its own nature
116  XI, 8 |    accident. Luck is an accidental cause at work in such events adapted
117  XI, 8 |         human calculation and is a cause by accident, but in the
118  XI, 8 |            the unqualified sense a cause of nothing. It is good or
119  XI, 8 |           luck or spontaneity is a cause of the material universe,
120 XII, 3 |          medical art is the formal cause of health.~
121 XII, 4 |          external, i.e. the moving cause, clearly while "principle"
122 XII, 4 |           and the proximate moving cause is different for different
123 XII, 4 |          disease, body; the moving cause is the medical art. Form,
124 XII, 4 |           kind, bricks; the moving cause is the building art. And
125 XII, 4 |          art. And since the moving cause in the case of natural things
126 XII, 5 |          cases where the matter of cause and of effect is not the
127 XII, 5 |            but different; e.g. the cause of man is (1) the elements
128 XII, 5 |         matter and form and moving cause being different from mine,
129 XII, 5 |          privation, and the moving cause are common to all things;
130 XII, 5 |            complete reality is the cause of all things. But in another
131 XII, 6 |           some principle which can cause change; nay, even this is
132 XII, 6 |            is no actually existing cause? Wood will surely not move
133 XII, 6 |          that, do they tell us the cause of its doing so. Now nothing
134 XII, 6 |         the first". For it was the cause of eternal uniformity; and
135 XII, 6 |          and something else is the cause of variety, and evidently
136 XII, 6 |    evidently both together are the cause of eternal variety. This,
137 XII, 7 |          to the best.~That a final cause may exist among unchangeable
138 XII, 7 |            meanings. For the final cause is (a) some being for whose
139 XII, 7 |         former does not. The final cause, then, produces motion as
140 XII, 8 |        there are others, they will cause change as being a final
141 XII, 8 |            change as being a final cause of movement; but there cannot
142 XII, 10|          becoming, and what is the cause of becoming?-this no one
143 XIII, 2|            quantities, what is the cause of their being one and holding
144 XIII, 3|      beautiful) as in some sense a cause. But we shall speak more
145 XIII, 5|          and cease to be; for they cause neither movement nor any
146 XIII, 8|          complete reality; and the cause of the error they fell into
147 XIII, 9|            agree but conflict. The cause is that their hypotheses
148 XIII, 9|          but the separation is the cause of the objections that arise
149 XIV, 2 |           they would have seen the cause of the plurality in substances
150 XIV, 2 |         something analogous is the cause. This aberration is the
151 XIV, 2 |          they provide some sort of cause for existing things, since
152 XIV, 2 |        things somehow or other the cause of their being; for let
153 XIV, 2 |            maintain that it is the cause of anything (he rather says
154 XIV, 2 |           is it observed to be the cause of anything; for the theorems
155 XIV, 5 |     abstract units, is neither the cause as agent, nor the matter,
156 XIV, 5 |            course, is it the final cause.~
157 XIV, 6 |          to another. Is number the cause, then, and does the thing
158 XIV, 6 |            other is so, and if the cause is that there are three
159 XIV, 6 |      vanish; for none of them is a cause in any of the senses that