Aristotle's efficient cause and Scholastic accounts of proximate versus remote causation similarly restrict causal chains without collapsing into mere salience or explanatory pragmatics.
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Scholastic(describes the philosophical tradition being discussed)
A style of philosophy developed in medieval Europe that tried to combine Christian theology with the logical methods of ancient Greek philosophers.
efficient cause(Used in contrast to a planning or formal cause; someone who rejects the argument from design denies there is an efficient cause of natural order.)
The active power or agent responsible for bringing something into existence or producing a change.
proximate cause(Legal notion applied to consequentialist ethics)
The cause most directly responsible for a harm, where intervening voluntary acts or coincidences sever the causal attribution of earlier acts in the chain of necessary conditions.