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THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES: THEORY AND PRACTICE
impossible to guarantee the long-term duration of development solely
relying functional or structural relations and it has been never realized in
any historical period in the past.
The causality concept: historical review of philosophy-
scientific thought
The causality concept was initially adopted by Greece philosophers
and effective from that period integrated into the philosophy-scientific
thought, becoming its inherent part. According to the some sources
almost 64 and 48 causality concepts were had identified by Platoon and
Aristotle respectively… Platoon determined causality concept from
mechanism and relevance points of view. Aristotle distinguished four
basic causality sources (Metaphysics) [Aristotel. 2007]:
• Material causality: the source of the fact!
• Creating causality: whose activity brought about realization
of economic event!
• Formal causality: why this particular item is presented in
way it is?
• Final causality: why, for what reason and for what purposes
particular item does exist?
In general, till XVII century searches for causality were made
basically based on discoveries made by Aristotle. Effective from XVII
searches for causality changed their direction. Thus the question of
Aristotle “why event does take place?” was replaced by question “how
the event take place?” addressed by Galileo (1564-1642). In other words,
the core of investigations was transferred from quality features to
quantitative one. Search for causality was replaced by identification of
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