A pair of categories that reflects things from the two aspects of their constituent elements and modes of expression and their relationship. Content refers to the sum total of all intrinsic elements that constitute things, including the various inner contradictions of things and the features, the process of motion and the trend of development of things determined by these contradictions. Form refers to the structure that unifies the elements of the content of things or the mode of manifestation of content. Everything is a unity of content and form…
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