It is not rationally demonstrable because, from a strictly Aristotelian viewpoint, an immaterial being cannot directly act on a corporeal one in his view, the motions of heavenly bodies acted as intermediaries between eternal beings and those which were generated and perishable.
Sign up for The book ofilled, delivered to your inbox daily.
Reaching for my thesaurus, feeling its familiar weight, provides a corporeal anchor during the mostly cerebral act of writing.
Moreover, if an incorporeal being were to act directly on a corporeal one, it too would be changed (by becoming a cause or a moved mover), which is unthinkable given the unchangeable nature of incorporeal entities.
But DUST, a self-described "fantasy techno collective" that is currently one of Brooklyn's most exciting live acts, thrives in bringing the corporeal to the rave floor even while coating their music in a sci-fi veneer.
ECMO, extra corporeal membrane oxygenation; IQR, interquartile range; N, number.
We must act immediately to reincarnate The Devil and The Lord into the corporeal vessel for the sake of our eternal unity in spirit and form.
Feminist scholars have explored how corporeal or biological distinctiveness mediates daily activities so that self-identification and social experience act on, and become attuned to, each other.
But there are other intellectual acts that require the presence of the body: sense perception, imagination, and corporeal (body-involving) memory.
Based on our consideration of divine "acts" above, we can see how even investigations into the workings of corporeal nature can be seen as having explicitly theological significance in a Maimonidean context.
