Form


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1 Form in relation to becoming or change.
2 Forms as immutable models or archetypes, the exemplar ideas.
3 Forms as indwelling causes or organizing principles.
4 The transcendental or a priori forms as constitutive of order in experience The realization of forms in the sensible order.
5 Imitation or participation, the role of the receptacle.
6 Creation, generation, production, embodiment in matter or substratum.
7 The ingression of eternal objects in the sensible order.
8 The being of forms.
9 The existence of forms, separately, in matter, in mind.
10 The eternity of forms, the perpetuity of species, the divine ideas.
11 Form in the composite being of the individual thing.
12 The union of matter and form, potentiality and actuality.
13 The distinction between substantial and accidental forms.
14 The unity of substantial form, prime matter in relation to substantial form.
15 Angels and human souls as self-subsistent forms, the substantiality of thought or mind in separation from extension or body.
16 Form in relation to knowledge.
17 Sensible forms, intelligible forms, the forms of intuition and understanding.
18 The problem of the universal, knowledge of the individual.
19 Form and definition, the formulable essence, the problem of matter in relation to definition.
20 The denial of form as a principle of being, becoming, or knowledge.


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