The West readily accepts visual matching as a criterion of truth and science; and our ideas of “causation” have tended toward mere classification for 2500 years. To the Greek, for whom phusis or “nature” was figure he had hoicked out of the ground of existence, it seemed that in creating the classification of phusis he had done all the entelechizing [or examining the effects of human artifacts -ed] that was needed. Nature was his art form.