A more complex position also continued to be held by some schools, such as the Neoplatonists, who, like Plato and Aristotle, insisted that Nature did indeed have a rational order, but were concerned about how to describe the way in which this rational order is caused.
Posisi yang lebih kompleks juga terus dilaksanakan oleh beberapa sekolah, seperti Neoplatonis, yang, seperti Plato dan Aristoteles, bersikeras bahwa Alam memang memiliki aturan rasional, tetapi khawatir tentang bagaimana untuk menggambarkan cara di aturan rasional ini disebabkan.