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The Fourfold Causal Schema in Modern Science
In theory, pretty much everyone says that in modern science, final causation has no role to play. If you just grab philosophers of biology and ask them, our final cause is okay. This might mean that there are things that modern science can't explain,. That's perfectly fine as long as we don't expect modern science to be able to explain everything. On the other hand, if you do claim that it can explain everything, then you have to worry about these things. Okay. So here's a case where some causal event happens, but it doesn't build on any preexisting potentiality. It's not like an it that has the property of being nothing.