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Often contrasted with content, the relationship between the two and the priority of the one over the other being vexed. At its simplest level, content refers to substance, while form refers to shape or structure. The form of a verbal composition represents how something is said, content represents what is said. Form extends to all phenomena, whether the structure of a society, work of art, body of law, and so on. The question is in which— form or content—consists the reality of the phenomenon, whether form is simply an empty shell that contains content or substance, or whether content is itself deter mined by the form in which it is expressed.
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