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Exemplary Cause
The form, idea, model, or plan that guides an intelligent efficient cause in producing its effect. E.g., the idea that an author has for the book that he or she writes. Exemplary causality is a speci...
Final Cause
(also called End, Finality, and Teleology).— An end, goal, or purpose. The final cause is that for the sake of which something either exists or is done. The final cause is the determinate thing to whi...
Formal Cause
(also called Form).— 1. A principle of act.
Four Causes
formal cause, material cause, efficient cause, final cause.
Hylemorphism
(also spelled Hylomorphism).— The doctrine, held by Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, and others, according to which bodies are composed of matter and form relating to each other as potency and act. Som...
Imagination
(also called Fantasy and Phantasy).— The internal sense by which one retains, perceives, combines, and modifies images (phantasms) of what is perceived by the external senses. Not to be confused with...
Intention
1. A mental being of some kind or the thing to which the attention of the intellect is directed.
Intentionality
The quality of being directed toward something. Normally, the term is used to refer either to the reference of a knower to what is known or an agent to an end to be achieved through a set of means....
Life
That mode of existence which involves immanence of agency, whether subjective (in the form of vegetative assimilation and growth) or objective (in the form of sensate or intellectual self-motion).
Material
1. Pertaining to the material or particular. 2. In bodily materiality, the condition of being marked by potency in relation to form. In various theories of individuation, such materiality plays a fun...

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