t or configuration of a continuant.")
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; (documentation Form  "Abstract information (A) independent (I) of any 
&gt; encoding
&gt; &gt;  or embodiment.  Forms can be said to exist in the same sense as 
&gt; mathematical
&gt; &gt;  objects such as sets and relations, but instances of forms cannot exist at
&gt; &gt;  a particular place and time without some physical encoding or embodiment.
&gt; &gt;  Whitehead called them "eternal objects" because they are independent of
&gt; &gt;  space and 