RT Article
T1 Beyond the Material and the Mechanical: Occam's Razor Is a Double-Edged Blade
JF Zygon
VO 30
IS 2
SP 249
OP 266
A1 Ulanowicz, Robert E.
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 1995
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1827951052
AB Abstract. To confine scientific narrative to only material and mechanical causes is to ensure incomplete and at times contrived descriptions of phenomena. In the life sciences, and particularly in the field of ecology, causality takes on qualitatively distinct forms at different hierarchical levels. The notion of formal cause provides for entirely natural and quantitative explanations of ecosystem behavior.
K1 Newtonianism
K1 hierarchy theory
K1 formal cause
K1 ecosystem development
K1 Aristotelean causality
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1995.tb00068.x