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Formal cause
(redirected from formal causes)

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the elements of a conception which make the conception or the thing conceived to be what it is; or the idea viewed as a formative principle and coöperating with the matter.
See under Cause.

See also: Cause Formal



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Formal causes refer to the mental strategies that influence behavior in human encounters.
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