Martha Nussbaum for example has argued that in his biology this approach was practical and meant to show nature only being analogous to human art, explanations of an organ being greatly informed by knowledge of its essential function.
Martha Nussbaum misalnya berpendapat bahwa dalam biologi Aristoteles pendekatan ini praktis dan hanya dimaksudkan untuk menunjukkan alam analog dengan karya manusia, penjelasan organ sangat mengetahui pengetahuan tentang fungsinya yang penting.