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    The counterexamples undermine the argument as traditional... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Either Aristotle is not correctly interpreted as arguing for teleology from the ground up in Physics ii 8, or he changed his mind about the grounds of teleology

    The counterexamples undermine the argument as traditionally interpreted

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    If so much captures Aristotle’s dominant argument for teleology, then his view is unmotivated. The argument is problematic in the first instance because it assumes an exhaustive and exclusive disjunction between what is by chance and what is for the sake of something. But there are obviously other possibilities. Hearts beat not in order to make noise, but they do so always and not by chance. Second, and this is perplexing if we have represented him correctly, Aristotle is himself aware of one s

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