Friday, December 28, 2018

Transformal Causality and Adaptation-Of

From Aristotle to Kant to Gestaltism, Formal Causality has always connoted the imposition of Form on Matter.  The concept thus entails the antecedent Formlessness of the Matter.  However, in all the examples of these traditions, Matter is pre-unified in at least some respect, e. g. contiguity.  Thus, they are not Formless prior to an imposition of Form, e. g. a lump of clay before being molded into a bowl.  In other words, Matter always possesses some Form, so Formal Causality is, more accurately, Transformal Causality.  Thus, the process of manufacturing that converts raw material into a finished product, is an example of Transformal Causality that is essential to Economics.  Likewise, Adaptation-Of, one the fundamental Organism-Environment relations, is essential to Evolutionism.  Accordingly, the distinctive versatility of the Human species is an expression of an unprecedented efficacy of Transformal Causality.

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