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单词 formal cause
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formal cause

noun Philosophy
(In Aristotelian thought) the pattern which determines the form taken by something.The four aspects are the formal cause, the material cause, the efficient cause, and the final cause....
  • Aristotle then links essence with his theory of causes, being identified variously with its final cause and with its formal cause.
  • Aristotle, however, does not regard efficient causes as radically different from material and formal causes.
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