On 10/5/06, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com> wrote:
> For example, when
> Little Red Ridinghood is told by the wolf that his teeth are so big the better
> to eat her with, the wolf is giving a final cause of why his teeth are so big,
> but this is not {mu'i}. Perhaps {te pi'o}.
>
> The material cause of something is what it is made of, and the formal
> cause of something is what its form is. These might be {se ma'e} and
> {te ma'e}, but we probably wouldn't call them causes.
Those aren't causes. -epkat
Take it up with Aristotle. :) mu'o mi'e xorxes