PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Unmoved Mover, Cosmological Argument
16 Oct 2018
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Definition of truth: how do you define the idea of truth. Criterion of truth: how do you tell what is true and what is false. Aristotle"s definition: to say what is that it is, and of what is no that it is not, is true. There is truth when an affirmation corresponds to (on slide) To know a thing is to know the reason for its being. To know the reason of the thing is to know the cause. The complete causes of any change includes: Formal cause: the law of the change. Material cause: the material persisting through the change. Final cause (telos, teleological cause): the purpose of the change. Not everything can have all 4 causes. No final cause for eye color, eye color is not a substance. Reason for things is explanations - deductions, demonstrations, proves not only that a thing exists but that it is necessary. Reality is reason - everything that truly is must be.
