Philosophy
- Substantial form, asserts that ideas organize matter and make it intelligible
- Theory of Forms, asserts that ideas possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality
- Value-form, an approach to understanding the origins of commodity trade and the formation of markets
- Argument form, aka Logical form or Test form - replacing the different words, or sentences, that make up the argument with letters, along the lines of algebra; the letters represent logical variables
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