Form

Forms are the eternal, separate archetypes in which sensible things participate and by which they are what they are.

Form is not separate but indwelling: together with matter it constitutes the individual substance, and as actuality it explains what each thing is.

Forms are the living contents of Intellect, emanating from the One and shaping all lower reality through participation.

The Forms are the eternal exemplars in the divine mind, according to which God creates and by which creatures are intelligible.

Form is the act by which matter is determined to be this kind of thing; in each substance there is only one substantial form.

Substantial forms are obscure relics to be banished; nature is exhaustively explained by matter in motion and the geometry of extension.

Real essences are hidden; what we call kinds are nominal essences, abstract ideas we ourselves compose to sort particulars.

Substantial forms return as monads: simple active substances, each a living mirror of the universe.

Form is not in things but in the knower: space and time are forms of intuition, and the categories are forms of understanding.

Form and content are not opposed: form is the self-moving structure of content itself, and the concept develops into reality.