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wood, or a statue's matter being bronze or marble.;Form: The formal cause of a change or movement. Aristotle defines form as, "...the terminus of the process of [change]." - Metaphysics V.4. It is what something changes into, i.e. what makes a thing what it is. Form is often confused with the whole substance, whereas it is a thing's essential difference, for example, man is a rational animal, what makes man a man, is his rationality, i.e. what makes him different from other animals.;Efficient, or agent: The efficient or moving cause of a change

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