Wood is the acquired material to make a table, but wood itself is not a wood table yet. What makes you be able to distinguish the wood products such as tables, chairs, cabinets, containers is its shape. Similarly, we can distinguish between a shirt and a pair of pants because they have different shapes, or form as the way Aristotle called. He pointed out the second cause, which is formal cause. Formal cause is about the form, function, or essence of thing, which is the characteristic that makes a thing one thing rather than many things. For example, the cell is material. A lot of cell can cause a human body and also a rabbit, so the difference between human body and rabbit is the form. Human has human’s form, and rabbit has rabbit’s
Wood is the acquired material to make a table, but wood itself is not a wood table yet. What makes you be able to distinguish the wood products such as tables, chairs, cabinets, containers is its shape. Similarly, we can distinguish between a shirt and a pair of pants because they have different shapes, or form as the way Aristotle called. He pointed out the second cause, which is formal cause. Formal cause is about the form, function, or essence of thing, which is the characteristic that makes a thing one thing rather than many things. For example, the cell is material. A lot of cell can cause a human body and also a rabbit, so the difference between human body and rabbit is the form. Human has human’s form, and rabbit has rabbit’s