It is not a final conclusion about the formal cause of the phenomenon but merely a hypothesis.

The first formal cause is like a blueprint, or an immortal idea.

Like the formal cause, this is a controversial type of cause in science.

This approach understands human nature in terms of final and formal causes.

Human nature is an example of a formal cause according to Aristotle.

No formal cause for the crashes, which killed 157 passengers and crew members, has been established.

The forms, or formal causes, of things are proposed by Plato to give account for the changes in the world.

But in the pragma what formal cause made a smile of that to- think?

By forms and formal causes, Bacon means the universal laws of nature.

The formal cause tells us what, by using the example of an artist, a thing is planned to be.