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outlook to replace Aristotelian forms as a causal explanation. So, for example, they
would affi rm that the wine is red because of the accident of redness in it; however, God
is the cause of the redness in the wine as well of our perceiving the wine as red. For
a discussion of causal explanations in medieval Latin and early modern thought, see
Steven Nadler, “Doctrines of Explanation in Late Scholasticism and in the Mechani-
cal Philosophy,” in The Cambridge History of Seventeenth- Century Philosophy, ed. Daniel
Garber and Michael Ayers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 513–52.