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''Form'' ( (octavo, quarto, etc.) or of a Cigarette . The word ''form'' is also applied to certain definite objects: in printing a body of type secured in a chase for printing at one impression (''form'' or ''forme''); a bench without a back, such as is used in schools (perhaps to be compared with the French ''s'asseoir en forme'', to sit in a row); a mould or shape on or in which an object is manufactured; the lair or nest of a hare. From its use in the sense of regulated order comes the application of the term to a class in a school ('' Sixth Form '', ''fifth form'', etc.); this sense has been explained without sufficient ground as due to the idea of all children in the same class sitting on a single form (bench). FORM IN PHILOSOPHY The word has had various usages in for the Aristotelian '' Formal Cause ''). The perfection of the form of a thing is its Entelechy in virtue of which it attains its fullest realization of function (De anima, ii. 2). Thus the entelechy of the Body is the Soul . The origin of the differentiation process is to be sought in a ''prime mover'', i.e. pure form entirely separate from all matter, eternal, unchangeable, operating not by its own activity but by the impulse which its own absolute existence excites in matter. The Aristotelian conception of form was nominally, though perhaps in most cases unintelligently, adopted by the Scholastics, to whom, however, its origin in the observation of the physical universe was an entirely foreign idea. The most remarkable adaptation is probably that of ; Kant ). These forms are not obtained by Abstraction from sensible data, nor are they strictly speaking Innate : they are obtained ''by the very action of the mind from the co-ordination of its sensation''. SEE ALSO REFERENCES
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