He thought that, for any given topic, all four kinds of explanatory mode were important, each in its own right. As a result of traditional specialized philosophical peculiarities of language, with translations between ancient Greek, Latin, and English, the word cause is nowadays in specialized philosophical writings used to label Aristotles four kinds. In ordinary language, the word cause has a variety of meanings, the most common of which refers to efficient causation, which is the topic of the present article. Material cause, the material whence a thing has come or that which persists while it changes, as for example, ones mother or the bronze of a statue (see also substance theory). Formal cause, whereby a things dynamic form or static shape determines the things properties and function, as a human differs from a statue of a human or as a statue differs from a lump of bronze. Efficient cause, which imparts the first relevant movement, as a human lifts a rock or raises a statue. This is the main topic of the present article. Final cause, the criterion of completion, or the end; it may refer to an action or to an inanimate process. Examples: Socrates takes a walk after dinner for the sake of his health; earth falls to the lowest level because that is its nature.Of Aristotles four kinds or explanatory modes, only one, the efficient cause is a cause as defined in the leading paragraph of this present article.
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