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| Form, philosophy: A. Form traditionally is an antonym of matter or content. Form is the structure or arrangement of something. It is the way that something is organized or composed. Form can be found in art, music, literature, architecture, nature and language. See also statue/clay, exterior/interior, Wholes, Parts, Dualism, Substance, Substrate, Change, Process.
B. In logic it comes to the form in which statements must be expressed in order to allow conclusions. See also Fine-grained/coarse-grained, Completeness, Theories, Systems, Formalism._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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John Bigelow on Forms - Dictionary of Arguments
I 51 Forms/Plato/Bigelow/Pargetter: his strategy is to postulate a single entity, along with a variety of relationships between individuals and that entity. ((s) Relation: participation, entity: form). >Methexis. On the other hand, another approach would be: VsPlato: to assume many different properties instead of a variable relation, each for a quantity: e.g. the property to have a weight of 2.0 kg, etc. This approach facilitates many things that are difficult to explain for Plato: he shows what distinguishes objects (whereas Plato rather shows what they have in common). This is because the different masses do not overlap here. PlatoVsVs: Problem: the new approach does not show what the objects have in common. >Determinates/determinables._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Big I J. Bigelow, R. Pargetter Science and Necessity Cambridge 1990 |
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