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发帖数: 759 | 1 On the Principles of Nature (De principiis naturae)
by Saint Thomas Aquinas, trans. by Jerry Campbell
It should also be noted that posterior cause is also called
proximate cause and prior cause, remote cause. Hence these
two divisions of causes--prior and posterior, remote and
proximate--signify the same thing. However, it should be
observed that always what is more universal is called remote
cause, what is more particular is called proximate cause.
For example, we say that the proximate form of |
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