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    It is not the case that The earthquake is not the efficient cause of the fall of the city

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    • 1.Reid's argument conflates efficient causation with agent causation, a distinction even Aristotle recognized in his four-cause schema.
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    • 2.Physical efficient causes in Aristotle's original framework are transmitters of motion or change, not necessarily agents with minds.
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    • 3.Restricting 'efficient cause' to minded agents retroactively imposes a non-standard definition onto a well-established metaphysical category.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Hume's regularity theory establishes that causation consists in constant conjunction, not the exercise of any intrinsic power or force.
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    • 2.If causation requires only regular succession, earthquakes can be efficient causes without possessing minds or intrinsic powers.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Efficient causation requires power
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    • 2.Power requires having a mind
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    • 3.The earthquake does not have a mind
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