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Originally Posted by dnlgfnk
I don't need to do anything. Usually when using an analogous example, something heretofore won't have been "spoken about". That's the point of the analogy. I don't need to do anything especially in an argument where the crux lies in accepting final causes because intentionality in nature (again, non-rational things A that regularly produce B but not C or D...require external explanation (besides efficient) for their causal power, i.e., become secondary causes). That's a philosophical position like the choice to accept only efficient causation (and then haggle about sequential order in efficient causation ad nauseam, which no one disputes unless boxcar did somewhere- I don't know).
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You must first establish "intentionality in nature among non rational beings". Teleology is not a given among all us "modernists". A debatable conundrum does not lend itself to a workable or clear analogy. Cause and effect among all things......both rational and non rational things.....are not time revers able except on the quantum level...at least among non rational sub atomic particles/waves
