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Can a Biologist Believe in the Existence of Life? | Prof. Stephen Meredith

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The Four Principles of Life

The formal cause is what the thing is. The efficient cause is the primary source of the change or rest. And the final cause is what we would say is the reason for something. Aristotle said that substances like Hermes are the union of form and matter. He meant by matter, not what we mean by it, like protons and neutrons and electrons.

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