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    Ontology is not, however, quite like other branches of science, because its uses substances, rather than laws of nature, to explain what is found in the world. That is the difference between ontological-cause explanations and efficient-cause explanations. Efficient-cause explanations depend on laws of nature to connect efficient causes to their effects, and accordingly, to infer to the best efficient-cause explanations is to attempt to discover the simplest and most comprehensive laws describing the regularities found in nature. But the causes in ontological explanation are the basic substances and the basic relationship among them, and since things are explained ontologically by showing how they are constituted by substances, ontological explanations do not depend on laws of nature. Ontological explanations show how basic substances are identical to what is found in the world. And since the laws of nature are explained ontologically (by showing how the basic substances and relationships postulated by the ontology make the laws true), the explanations given by ontological science all cite substances as causes in the end.
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