Coroner's officials say they will not have a final cause of death for weeks.
Investigators have not determined a final cause of the Lion Air crash.
However, Mayr (1997) emphasized that evolutionary biology is, in the first place, concerned with answering Why-questions in the sense of "How come?" These Why-questions do not ask for a final cause, a preconceived ultimate goal.
He has thereby also, however, evidently maneuvered himself into an uncomfortable position whereby the Fountain of Youth, for instance, is a final cause, even though it has no real being (esse reale).
Hence, it lacks a final cause.
A monkey, for example, has matter, its body; form, its soul; an efficient cause, its parent; and a final cause, its function.
Final causes, however, are problematic: a final cause is an end or a purpose, and, whereas it is clear that rational agents act for the sake of ends, it is not clear that much else does.
It cannot be the final cause since a final cause perfects a thing, but does not establish it in being, which is what the agent intellect does for the soul.
Overall, this drag will be smaller than the combination of tighter credit and falling house prices, but its impact will be concentrated over a shorter period.A final cause for concern is the labour market.
