Sentence examples for composite things from inspiring English sources

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Composite things can be destroyed.

So premise number one, only composite things can be destroyed.

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

After all, if we have premises one, two, and three — only composite things can be destroyed, only changing things are composite, invisible things don't change — if you put those together, you get four, invisible things can't be destroyed.

And the same principle, as I should suppose, applies to all composite things --furniture, houses, garments; when good and well made, they are least altered by time and circumstances.

Just as in other cases the substratum must be formless and unshapen-for thus the 'all-receptive', as we read in the Timaeus, will be best for modelling-so the elements should be conceived as a material for composite things; and that is why they can put off their qualitative distinctions and pass into one another.

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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.

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

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