But however obscure the explanation, the facts of the case seem clear enough: certain formal principles in art must be observed, and, to the degree that they are ignored or violated, aesthetic catastrophe occurs: the work of art cannot evoke our interest or sustain it long once it is initiated.
As thisnesses are the formal principles in virtue of which individuals are what they are, something particular, concrete, and perfectly determined in itself, so these individual causal principles deriving from ideas are what causes the passage from the specific ideal standard to the analytical description of its instantiations (QdU, fol. 135ra).
Each is able to decide what is morally required by consulting a formal principle in their mind (e.g., the Kantian categorical imperative) or their own feeling states.
Fundamental properties of abstract systems are modeled and analyzed in "Formal principles and properties of complex systems", which rigorously explain the nature of real-world concrete systems.
Accordingly, he developed a strictly natural magic natural in the sense that the formal principles driving the movement of things in the cosmos were taken as "occult", with many causes of their often marvelous properties per se unknowable to us.
Asked whether the combinations were selected on formal principles alone, Fischer quickly responded in the affirmative.
It's in the formal principles of the mosques that Europeans learned that Islam drew from and modernized the cosmology of the Greek mathematician and mystic Pythagoras to elaborate a system of design and construction based entirely on the principle that all things proceeded from number.
This can be achieved by means of various formal principles, e.g., a strong comprehension principle (as in Zalta 1988) or axioms ensuring very finely-individuated properties (as in Bealer 1982, 65, or Menzel 1986, 38)(see §8).
In contrast to material principles, formal principles describe how one acts without making reference to any desires.
The principles first created, however, are not the intelligences, as in Avicenna's metaphysics, but the material and formal principles of the things (Jolivet 1988, 138 140).
Our approach may help reconcile formal principles of rationality and human intuitions about good decisions that may better reflect "rationality" in medical decision-making [ 21, 32, 46, 47].
