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n 35
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p.182
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Form is the principle that connects a thing's constitution (rather than being operative)
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Full Idea:
Form is the state and condition of a thing, a result of the connection among its material principles; it is a constituting principle, not an operative one.
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From:
Nicholas Hill (Philosophia Epicurea [1610], n 35)
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A reaction:
Pasnau presents this as a denial of form, but it looks to me like someone fishing for what form could be in a more scientific context. Aristotle would have approved of 'principles'. Hill seems to defend the categorical against the dispositional.
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