Sentence examples for animate thing from inspiring English sources

Therefore none of the things that we are now considering move themselves (for they are of naturally connected substance), nor does anything else that is continuous: in each case the movent must be separate from the moved, as we see to be the case with inanimate things when an animate thing moves them.

The third objection may be thought to present more difficulty than the others, namely, that which alleges that motion arises in things in which it did not exist before, and adduces in proof the case of animate things: thus an animal is first at rest and afterwards walks, not having been set in motion apparently by anything from without.

The difference is sometimes only one of function, sometimes also one of shape; and while the distinction of above and below is characteristic of all animate things, whether plants or animals, that of right and left is not found in plants.

So we will animate things, bring people and objects to life.

"And, in general, if only the sensible exists, there would be nothing if animate things were not; for there would be no faculty of sense.

In this, Milton builds on a philosophy called Vitalism, which holds that all animate things — including plants and insubstantial beings, like angels — are made from "thinking matter".

For animate things the word form of the object is identical to the genitive case form, while for inanimate things the nominative case form should be used.

"All animate things are better than inanimate, but there is nothing better than the universe, wherefore the universe is animate". It may be thought that in this case there is no real major premise, since it would be possible to state the reasoning in the following form: "The universe is animate, for all things animate are better than inanimate," etcetera.

At the next division one kind passes on its own directions to generate inanimate things (the master-builder belongs here), while the other does so to generate animate things (the statesman belongs here) (Statesman 261b d).

The Stranger then divides this latter kind into those who generate and rear single animate things (ox-drivers and grooms are here), and those who generate and rear them in herds (the statesman and herdsman are here) (Statesman 261d).

First the visitor retraces his steps and points out that in speaking of rearing animate things, he and Young Socrates had already in effect divided living creatures into wild and tame (Statesman 264a).