form, logical See LOGICAL FORM.

form, Platonic See FORM, PLATO.

form, schematic See LOGICAL FORM.

form, substantial See FORM, HYLOMORPHISM.

formal cause See ARISTOTLE.

formal distinction See FUNDAMENTUM DIVISIONIS.

formal fallacy an invalid inference pattern that is described in terms of...

formalism the view that mathematics concerns manipulations of symbols according to...

formalism, aesthetic See AESTHETIC FORMALISM.

formalism, ethical See ETHICS.

formalism, jurisprudential See JURISPRUDENCE.

formalism, legal See JURISPRUDENCE.

formalization an abstract representation of a theory that must satisfy requirements...

formalize narrowly construed, to formulate a subject as a theory in...

formal justice See JUSTICE.

formal language a language in which an expression's grammaticality and interpretation (if...

formal learnability theory the study of human language learning through explicit formal models...

formal logic the science of correct reasoning, going back to Aristotle's Prior...

formal mode See METALANGUAGE.

formal reality See REALITY.

formal semantics the study of the interpretations of formal languages. A formal...

formal sign See SEMIOSIS.

formation rule See WELL-FORMED FORMULA.

form of life See WITTGENSTEIN.

Forms, theory of See PLATO.

formula See WELL-FORMED FORMULA.

formula, closed See OPEN FORMULA, WELL-FORMED. FORMUL.

formula, open See OPEN FORMULA, WELL -FORMED. FORMUL. Foucault, Michel (1926–84), French...

foundationalism the view that knowledge and epistemic (knowledge-relevant) justification have a...

foundation axiom See SET THEORY.