The Causation of Finality

American Philosophical Quarterly 22 (4):311 - 320 (1985)
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This paper revives the idea of final cause as a way of considering how the meaning of occurrences--what they have permitted in our lives, as opposed to what produced them or how they fit into a prior plan--is essential to our understanding them.

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