Physics
- "...the motion of these latter bodies being of two kinds: either from the centre or to the centre." (339a14-15)
- "So we must treat fire and earth and the elements like them as the material causes of the events in this world (meaning by material what is subject and is affected), but must assign causality in the sense of the originating principle of motion to the influence of the eternally moving bodies." (339a27-32)
This is a reference to the unmoved movers, a teleological explanation.
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