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    Challenges→In physics, the questions 'whether X is' and 'what X is' both ask for any kind of cause of X's existing, including extrinsic efficient or final causes.

    Aristotle's Posterior Analytics distinguishes definitional 'what is it' questions from causal 'why is it' questions as logically prior and independent inquiries.

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