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    It is not the case that A thing more truly is what it is destined to become than what it currently seems to be.

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    • 1.Aristotle's four causes grant formal and material causes equal ontological weight to final causes, not subordinate status.
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    • 2.A thing's current actuality (its form as realized) is prior to potentiality in Aristotle's own metaphysics, not posterior to it.
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    • 3.Therefore, even within classical teleology, what a thing currently IS grounds what it can become, reversing the claim's priority.
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    • 1.Hume's regularity theory of causation eliminates intrinsic teleological directionality from nature, making 'destined to become' a projection rather than a real property.
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    • 2.If teleological endpoints are not objective features of things but observer-relative descriptions, then future states cannot constitute a thing's deeper identity.
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    • 1.If teleology is taken seriously, everything about a thing is to be explained in terms of its telos or goal.
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    • 2.What a thing is destined to become is therefore more explanatorily fundamental than its current state.
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