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| Question | Page |
|---|---|
| It is asked concerning another property of form (as an exemplary pattern) exemplary pattern: the idea or "blueprint" in the mind of a creator or in nature that a thing follows. | 105 |
| It is asked concerning the property of the efficient cause efficient cause: the agent or force that brings something into being, such as a carpenter building a chair. | 105 |
| It is asked whether it is necessary for one effect to have multiple causes | 106 |
| It is asked whether one effect has multiple causes | 106 |
| It is asked whether one cause is the cause of another | 107 |
| (It is asked concerning the statement that the same thing is the cause of opposites) | 107 |
| It is asked how the absence of the sailor causes the danger to the ship This refers to a famous example by Aristotle where the absence of a pilot is the "cause" of a shipwreck. | 108 |
| It is asked whether in other causes the same thing is the cause of opposites | 108 |
| It is asked whether the universal and the particular are distinctions of all causes: whether causes are universal | 109 |
| It is asked concerning other distinctions, act and potency: how they apply to [substance or] matter act and potency: the state of being "actual" (a finished statue) versus "potential" (the block of marble). | 110 |
| (It is asked whether a singular and specific cause, being in a state of act, establishes its effect) | 111 |
| It is asked if the universal cause exists, whether the effect exists | 112 |
| It is asked whether this property applies to every distinction | 112 |
| (It is asked concerning the second property) | 113 |
| It is asked whether chance and fortune are actual things | 114 |
| It is asked whether these are substances or accidents substance or accident: a substance is a thing that exists in itself, like a dog; an accident is a quality that exists in something else, like the dog's brown color. | 115 |
| It is asked whether they are some positive nature or a privation privation: the absence or lack of a quality that should normally be present. | 115 |
| It is asked what chance and fortune are: it is asked whether they are causes | 115 |
| It is asked whether chance is a cause in itself | 116 |
| It is asked how it is the cause of those things which happen in the minority of cases | 116 |
| It is asked what those things are which are more commonly said to happen | 117 |
| (It is asked of which things fortune is the cause) | 118 |
| (It is asked whether chance is the cause of all things) | 119 |
| It is asked in which things chance and fortune exist: it is asked whether they occur in those possessing purpose | 120 |
| It is asked whether there is purpose in children | 120 |
| It is asked whether fortune exists in children and in brute animals | 120 |
| It is asked whether they exist inanimate things | 121 |
| It is asked to which cause chance and fortune must be reduced | 122 |
| It is asked whether chance and fortune are reduced to | 122 |
| It is asked whether fortune should be reduced to the speculative or practical intellect | 123 |
| It is asked whether an essential cause and an accidental cause must be rooted in the same subject | 124 |
| It is asked whether anything is fortuitous or accidental in relation to the first cause first cause: in this context, it refers to God or the ultimate source of all existence. | 124 |