If such a supposition is
entertained, the blame rests not with the demonstration but with the
hearer.
(4) Demonstration is syllogism that proves the cause, i.e. the
reasoned fact, and it is rather the commensurate universal than the
particular which is causative (as may be shown thus: that which
possesses an attribute through its own essential nature is itself
the cause of the inherence, and the commensurate universal is primary;
hence the commensurate universal is the cause). Consequently
commensurately universal demonstration is superior as more
especially proving the cause, that is the reasoned fact.
(5) Our search for the reason ceases, and we think that we know,
when the coming to be or existence of the fact before us is not due to
the coming to be or existence of some other fact, for the last step of
a search thus conducted is eo ipso the end and limit of the problem.
Thus: 'Why did he come?' 'To get the money-wherewith to pay a
debt-that he might thereby do what was right.' When in this regress we
can no longer find an efficient or final cause, we regard the last
step of it as the end of the coming-or being or coming to be-and we
regard ourselves as then only having full knowledge of the reason
why he came.
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