The rejection of Aristotelian teleological causes by early modern mechanistic philosophers like Spinoza and Galileo is a well-established historical fact, requiring no specific citation of the retrieved papers.
The claim states that mechanistic philosophers such as Spinoza and Galileo rejected Aristotelian teleological causes. This is a foundational, standard historical fact concerning the Scientific Revolution and early modern philosophy. Although paper [6] discusses historical critiques of final causes in the late Middle Ages, the core historical consensus regarding 17th-century mechanists is common knowledge in intellectual history, making specific paper citations unnecessary according to STEP 0.