formal cause

<metaphysics, ontology, causality, Aristotle, physics>, <aristotelianism, Nicholas of Cusa, medieval philosophy> structural features or attributes of a thing; one of the four causes. Recommended Reading: Aristotle, Physics, tr. by Robin Waterfield and David Bostock (Oxford, 1999).

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