What is the manner in which a thing is conceived or constituted by an act of human thinking; the result of such an act; as, animality and rationality are formalities called?
formality — (Scholastic. Philos.) The manner in which a thing is conceived or constituted by an act of human thinking; the result of such an act; as, animality and rationality are formalities. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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