And because grace is above human nature, it cannot be a substance or a substantial form, but is an accidental form of the soul.
On the other hand, venial sin is a disposition to something differing generically, even as an accident which disposes to a substantial form, into which it is never changed.
Wherefore an accident can be a disposition to a substantial form, so can a venial sin dispose to mortal.
And for this reason no substantial form is participated more or less.
Thus, we can say that velocity is the essential form of movement, though, of course, it is not a substantial form, as movement is not a substance.
Others have said that light is the sun's substantial form, but this also seems impossible for two reasons.
But light is not produced by the transmutation of matter, as though matter were in receipt of a substantial form, and light were a certain inception of substantial form.
Since quality is consequent upon substantial form, the mode in which the subject receives a quality differs as the mode differs in which a subject receives a substantial form.
Scholasticism was content to talk about it under the name of 'substantial form' or 'formal cause'.
There is an X', he wanted to say, 'which scholasticism has defined as substantial form, but I am going to give a new definition of it.
The doctrine of substantial form which he learnt in his youth had had something in it; he could not settle down in the principles of Descartes or of Gassendi, because both ignored this vital something.
This intimius principium is the "substantial form" of the water.
The existence of the iron depends on the presence within it of a substantial form, which is the cause of its properties, e.
There is nothing to prevent art from making a thing whose form is not an accident, but a substantial form; as frogs and serpents can be produced by art: for art produces such forms not by its own power, but by the power of natural energies.
Therefore they cannot change external matter, at least as to a substantial form.
This intrinsic energy is the entelechy, substantial form, or what is popularly called the soul.
Now, a principle which by a communication of itself determines the body in its essence and differentiates it as a living substance from everything else, is a substantial form.
This intimius principium, is the "substantial form" of the water.
The existence of the iron depends on the presence within it of a substantial form, which is the cause of its properties, e.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "substantial form" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
