Form
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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Form is the shape or visible structure of a thing or person or a thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold. It can also refer to an order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
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Etymology
From Middle English forme (“shape, figure, manner, bench, frame, seat, condition, agreement, etc.”), from Old French forme, from Latin forma (“shape, figure, image, outline, plan, mold, frame, case, etc., manner, sort, kind, etc.”) Perhaps from Ancient Greek μόρφα (morpha, “bodily form, build”), from μορφή (morphē, “shape, fashion, appearance, outward form, contour, figure”), via Etruscan.
Related
art form - appearance - biomorphism - content - design - formalism - formula - function - metamorphosis - object - perception - style - thing - zoomorphism
Philosophy
- Substantial form, asserts that ideas organize matter and make it intelligible
- Theory of Forms, asserts that ideas possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality
- Value-form, an approach to understanding the origins of commodity trade and the formation of markets
- Argument form, aka Logical form or Test form - replacing the different words, or sentences, that make up the argument with letters, along the lines of algebra; the letters represent logical variables
See also
- Amorphous
- Deformis formositas ac formosa deformitas
- Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne
- Essence
- Figure
- Fingo
- Form and content
- Form follows function
- Formality
- Form of the Good
- Geometry
- Information
- Matter
- Morph
- Reform
- Substance
