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ケイソウイン
Meanings
Noun
Philosophy
1. formal cause (one of Aristotle's four fundamental types of answer to the question "why?")
Alt. forms
形
けい
相
そう
因
いん
ケイソウイン
Pitch accent
ケ
イソ
ウイン
Composed of
ケイソウ
form; appearance; form (in Aristotelianism); eidos
イン
cause; factor; hetu (direct cause, esp. as opposed to indirect conditions); the basis of one's argument (in hetuvidya)