Sentence examples for material and formal from inspiring English sources

Actual sin is also subdivided into material and formal.

The most-celebrated account of teleology was that given by Aristotle when he declared that a full explanation of anything must consider its final cause as well as its efficient, material, and formal causes (the latter two being the stuff out of which a thing is made and the form or pattern of a thing, respectively).

Twardowski distinguishes material and formal parts of an object.

Correspondingly, the main types of distinction (or difference) are also two: material and formal.

In the Platonic view, however, the material and formal causes are only subservient or instrumental causes.

Still, certain aspects of their accounts of Aristotle's material and formal causes have been studied (Bertolacci 2002).

The Italian master recognizes two main types of identity: material (secundum materiam) and formal (secundum formam).

In the rest of the building, the architects' minimalist palette of materials and formal simplicity seems almost glacial at times, a series of horizontal and vertical surfaces that shy away from self-presentation.

He drew upon received notions of li (pattern) and qi (cosmic vapor) to describe and account for the material, dynamic, and formal features of perceived phenomena.

Rituals can refer to texts, material objects, and formal acts.

It is certainly possible to conceive of some such things, as in the theory of structured propositions mentioned in Section 2.1, or in certain neo-Aristotelian metaphysics that construe objects as mereological sums of a "material" and a "formal" part; see e.g. Fine 1999, 2010, Koslicki 2007, 2008, and Toner 2012.