fourcause
The term fourcause, or four causes, was introduced by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle in his work "Physics." He proposed that to understand anything fully, one must understand its four causes. These causes are the material cause, the formal cause, the efficient cause, and the final cause.
The material cause refers to the substance or matter from which something is made. For example, the
The efficient cause is what brings the object into existence or what causes it to change. In
Aristotle believed that understanding these four causes provided a complete explanation for any phenomenon or object,