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    It is not the case that Whatever happens always or for the most part must happen for the sake of something and must admit of a teleological cause.

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    • 1.Regularities can be fully explained by efficient and material causes without invoking final causes, as Democritus and modern mechanism demonstrate.
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    • 2.The appearance of teleological order in regular natural processes is adequately explained by selection effects: structures lacking regularity simply do not persist.
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    • 3.Hume's critique establishes that regularity in nature licenses only inductive generalization, not inference to purposive causation as an ontological feature.
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    • 1.P2's disjunction between chance and teleology is not exhaustive: deterministic material necessity constitutes a third category reducible to neither.
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    • 2.Spinoza's natura naturans demonstrates that necessary causal emanation from substance produces lawlike regularity without any final causation or intentional directedness.
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    • 1.Nature exhibits regularity, with parts of nature coming about in patterned and regular ways.
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    • 2.Things happen either by chance or for the sake of something (exhaustive and exclusive disjunction).
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    • 3.What happens always or for the most part happens in a patterned and predictable way.
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