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The M-CaReM-AI Method: Defining Work for AI / Unit 2   MCM 027 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Cause, in the Older Sense

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The idea

Today cause usually means what made something happen; Aristotle used the word more broadly, for the ways a thing can be explained.

In practice

In the Physics he says people do not think they know a thing until they have grasped its why, and he finds four kinds of why.

Where people slip

The method borrows this broader sense: four questions you can ask of any thing.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

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