> On Oct 21, 2016, at 1:55 PM, John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: > > But the modern word > has become specialized to the single sense of efficient cause.
Only among a small minority of philosophers of science who attempt to establish the hegemony of the science of physics, this is probably true. But, medicine, the biomedical sciences, the chemical (material) sciences are forced to face reality, the reality of the conservation laws of physics. The role of efficient causality is extremely perplex in life and in the chemical sciences. Einstein put it very nicely: “In any complete theory, there is an element corresponding to each element of reality”. The correspondence mapping can not be ignored as CSP recognized when he noted the relation between sin-sign and index and the mapping from icon to rhema. IMHO, of course. Cheers jerry
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