Sentence examples for being capable of action from inspiring English sources

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Action is an attribute of substance, for Leibniz defines substance as "a being capable of action" (GP vi, 598).

As he says in the opening line of the Principles of Nature and Grace: "A Substance is a being capable of action".

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Primate studies have identified populations of neurons that are capable of action recognition.

It constitutes a legally responsible actor who is capable of action and who is based in the village while at the same time guaranteeing a strong sense of ownership to the involved households.

This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings … The fact that man is capable of action means that the unexpected can be expected from him, that he is able to perform what is infinitely improbable.

Drawing on Kant, he argues that "[any] agent, insofar as it is capable of action at all (that is, insofar as it is, indeed, an agent), acts in a space that is an objective space, in which other agents also act, and yet which is always immediately configured subjectively in terms of the agent's own oriented locatedness" (Malpas forthcoming, 14).

Still, he realizes that what "could happen was always worse than what he could imagine," worries that the people in the hospital who are poking and prodding him are capable of "actions as awful and mysterious as the sea creatures living at the bottom of the ocean".

But, he argues, conglomerate groups, such as business corporations, that possess internal decision structures and stated policies, are capable of actions that we can properly represent as the intentional actions of the group.

"The issue of whether central banks are capable of vigorous action, bold action, was answered yesterday".

Many polysaccharide hydrolases are capable of processive action, where they perform repeated attacks without dissociating from the substrate molecule.

Increasing the amplitude of fiber stimulation caused a monotonic increase in the amplitude of EPSPs and was capable of driving action potentials in 17% (5/29) of neurons.

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