Sentence examples for materials and formal from inspiring English sources

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.

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).

Material and formal causes are considered as intrinsic to or immanent in their effects, efficient and final causes as extrinsic to their effects (Wisnovsky 2003b).

In answering the question concerning the first intention of a thing, Francis distinguishes between a material and formal priority of concepts.

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).

Second, Kant distinguishes between two basic kinds of principles or rules that we can act on: what he calls material and formal principles.