Aristotelian necessarycausal connections between essences and properties are not reducible to observable regularities, making his explanatory model incompatible with empiricist constraints.
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Observable regularities(in empiricism and science)
Patterns you can see happen over and over again, like the sun rising every morning or water boiling at a certain temperature.
Reducible(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of mind)
Able to be broken down or explained in terms of something simpler or more basic; for example, saying 'water' is reducible to hydrogen and oxygen.
causal connections(al-Ghazālī's distinction between types of necessity)
A broader set of regular connections between events (e.g., fire burning cotton) that represent the normal course of nature but whose violations do not entail logical impossibility
empiricism(Used in discussing what cannot explain false belief in Theaetetus 187–201)
Either a developed philosophical theory or the instinctive empiricism of some people's common sense
essence(Medieval realist metaphysics)
The defining nature of a species, held by some to be distinct from and capable of surviving the destruction of all individual members of that species
incompatible(as used to describe conflicting demands or responsibilities)
Unable to exist or work together at the same time; conflicting with each other.
properties(Contrasted with substances as ontologically dependent entities.)
Entities that depend for their existence on substances, being properties of individual objects.