{"id":26,"date":"2013-02-04T05:45:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T00:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srinivasv.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2017-08-27T17:26:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T11:56:58","slug":"form-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/form-function\/","title":{"rendered":"How to know an Ideal?<small>&#8211; The Notion of &#8220;Form &#038; Function&#8221; <\/small>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Form represents the whole \u2013 the complete ideal \u2013 the totality of possibility inherent in the idea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Form, in that sense, is the boundary to the infinite becoming inherent in an idea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the other hand, function represents the manifestation \u2013 the \u201cactive possibility\u201d &#8211; born out of the ideal \u2013 stated or unstated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Form and Function \u2013 ideal and its practice \u2013 in situ \u2013 are therefore to be understood as a whole beyond context, and the same whole in context.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this view, neither can form follow function nor function follow form \u2013 both must co-emerge as the joint process of articulation and application of the same ideal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seen another way, to know any ideal one must articulate it and one must applicationize it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the articulation of the \u201cform\u201d the ideal reveals itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the application, the ideal reveals itself within the context of life itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Form and Function are to be understood as a whole &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9361,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/9361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}