Sentence examples for composite thing from inspiring English sources

You can make sentences about a composite thing, you can't ask it to look back at you.

A composite thing has more than one part.

(E.g., the denial of the explanatory power of an infinite causal regress, or the principle that the existence of any composite thing needs to be explained).

Since Bonaventure endorses, usually without any elaborate argumentation, the general claim that there is a plurality of substantial forms within any composite thing, his doctrine of light really means that light is the first form, endowing each thing with extension, and preparing the way for further perfections such as the forms of the elements or the forms of mixtures or compounds.

Rationales have to do with composite things — migrants, swimmers, the selfish, the damned, the plural — but existence and sense belong to singularity.

In his words, "all composite things have unity, even though they do not have simplicity" (E 6, 47).

Kilwardby argues that time and motion are exceptions to the rule according to which the parts of composite things must exist simultaneously; instead, he claims, that they are composite transient things, and the parts of time are successive (DT 7 9).

For example, the extensionality theorem of EM, (27), says that composite things with the same proper parts are identical, but in the presence of indeterminacy this may call for qualifications.

A good example for me is two-dimensional animation, which I can do very quickly now because I can just composite things without waiting for them to render.

So does Merricks 2000, 2001, whose restricted nihilism leaves room for composite conscious things).

(This account is sometimes referred to as mereological nihilism, in contrast to the mereological universalism expressed by (P.15i); see van Inwagen 1990: 72ff.[25] Van Inwagen himself endorses a restricted version of nihilism, which leaves room for composite living things.