form, the external shape, appearance, or configuration of an object, in contradistinction to the matter of which it is composed; in metaphysics, the active, determining principle of a thing as distinguished from matter, the potential principle.
The word form has been used in a number of ways throughout the history of philosophy and aesthetics. It was early applied to Plato’s term eidos, by which he identified the permanent reality that makes a thing what it is, in contrast to the particulars that are finite and subject to change. The Platonic concept of form was itself derived from the Pythagorean theory that ... (100 of 822 words)
Aspects of the topic form are discussed in the following places at Britannica.
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- significance in phenomenology (in eidetic reduction (philosophy))
role in
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Greek philosophy
(in metaphysics: Forms)- Aristotle (in epistemology (philosophy): Aristotle; in Aristotle (Greek philosopher): Form; in metaphysics: Aristotelianism )
- Plato and Platonism (in idea)
- Islamic philosophy (in Islām (religion): The teachings of al-Kindī; in Islām (religion): The teachings of Mullā Ṣadrā )
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