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Aristotle concludes Posterior Analytics with a comment on foundationalism. While dissatisfied with apriori foundationalism, at his core, Aristotle is an aposteriori foundationalist. Knowledge claims cannot infinitely regress, and they must not be formed from apriori principles.

For Aristotle, scientific knowledge comes from an understanding of a thing in terms of what causes it . Generally, Aristotle divides causes into four categories :

# The material cause: that which an object is made of.

# The formal cause: the form of an object.