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¶ ‘Illa, kāraṇa, gù: what each tradition’s word for ’cause’ lets it ask

I've been thinking about how the translators of the ninth and tenth centuries handled Aristotle's aitia. They used 'illa and sabab, and here is the interesting part: 'illa already had, or soon acquired, a second life in law. In Islamic jurisprudence, the…