According to the context in which used it, the word form regarding various issues.
The outward appearance of a body
Its most widespread use is one who says that the way is the outer figure of a solid body of material. I.e., is the representation that has a body on the outside and by case is that the form allows us to recognize square, round and rectangular shapes and forms in a single body. Then, by this is that we can classify different objects into squares, spheres, circles, among others. The classification of the forms in this sense speaks of geometric or basic forms (equilateral triangle, circle and square, each one has its own characteristics and are the basis for the formation of others), organic or natural forms (those to which man uses to carry out their artistic creations) and artificial forms (that man creates for example, a Chair, a car, one table, among others).
The form for philosophy and the view of the most prominent philosophers
On the other hand, the concept of shape keeps a special presence in the field of philosophy, recently mentioned that way was the foreign figure of a material body, insofar as possible, that way once it is known, is possible, thanks to the power of abstraction, bring it back to our mind and also make groupings of objects according to their shapes; then, in the same way we can group and sort things in our mind, unifying them into concepts that we denotarán just thinking about them the same properties, highlighting each one somehow which is which will allow us to know that it is essentially. Philosophy has then addressed the issue on many occasions, in both, one of the philosophers who contributed definitions on the issue was the Greek Aristotle, who distinguished between the second and the first substances. The first are those individuals who comprise a species and are shaped by matter and form and power and act. And the latter are universal substances. Final accounts, for Aristotle the way is what makes the first substance is and nothing else. The form determines the matter. Matter acts in a more passive way whereas shape is active and is what distinguishes matter. In addition is the essence of things because it will make them be what they are and nothing else. There were also other philosophers and relevant personalities who took care of the issue, such is the case of Pythagoras which argued that something is what the difference of another and in his opinion was the number that made the difference. (E) an important eighteenth-century philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that knowledge begins in the sensitive world, matter must give way to organize experience and create knowledge. Why is you order commodity report by categories. But there are many applications of the concept, well...
Other specific uses
The way of having a thing, or failing, to how to do it, also it known as form. Also mode to express themselves that has someone, either in writing or in their conversations, often it is called as form of talking, form or write that. And when you want to give an account of the physical condition that presents a particular person is often speak in terms of form, is to say: "despite the amount of carbohydrates that consumes daily, John, continues to be in a very good physical shape". I.e., when someone has a good physique is often say that you have an excellent way. In politics, the word is used to refer to different types of systems of Government that exist and which involve different ways of exercising power: authoritarian, democratic