If completion is a limit rather than an achieved state, the fourth cause collapses into a fifth: the mover's influence ends due to mathematical convergence, not intentional finality.
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Aristotle's framework that explains why things exist or happen: the material cause (what it's made of), formal cause (its shape/form), efficient cause (what made it), and final cause (its purpose or goal).
final cause(Aristotle's explanation of how an unchanging first cause produces eternal motion in heavenly spheres)
A cause that operates by being the object desired or aimed at by the thing it causes to move, rather than by acting directly upon it
finality(One of the four basic principles of metaphysics according to Maritain)