As mentioned above, essences depend on the divine intellect, which is their exemplary cause.
God's knowledge of what is different from Himself coincides with the knowledge of the different ways in which He considers Himself imitable, since divine knowledge is not determined by the presence of external objects, but rather is itself the formal (exemplary) cause of its own contents.
Lotus is an exemplary case.
Figure 2 depicts an exemplary case history.
In NSLPor 2 (M 2vb), he states that universals exist in God's mind as exemplary and formal causes, but science is about universals that exist in and are abstracted from individual things; thus, the ideas (ydee) that exist in God's mind from eternity are of no use to science (NLP I.36, 230 231).
Starting from these fundamental propositions, Proclus argues, Plato deduces the different types of causality that are required for a truly scientific understanding of nature (efficient, exemplary, and final cause; see Steel 2003 and above 3.2).
His Action-painting doctrine — if so nebulous a formulation, advanced in a famous essay in 1952, can be called that — enlisted Sartre's existentialism in the cause of exemplary artist-heroes for whom painting had become "an arena in which to act.... What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event".
Buchanan has done an exemplary job of building ideological causes for his party, he really has.
They work both as monuments to the cause and as exemplary bits of urbanism, incorporated into public spaces that they solemnize without subduing.
The intelligible world is the pattern or model of nature, "since it could no more be its own Exemplary or Formal, than Efficient Cause" (30).
Prominent in his discussions is the importance of secondary causes in nature (both exemplary and secondary efficient causes), and the need for experiments, not just as tools of confirmation, but also as a means of discovering the true nature of things.
