Sentence examples for corporeal extension from inspiring English sources
Thus quantity (corporeal extension) is constitutive of body as such.
Philoponus, in contrast, arrives at something he calls corporeal extension (sômatikón diástêma), which is a composite of Neoplatonic prime matter and indeterminate quantity and must not be confused with Philoponian space.
414), and it has been pointed out that this ontological level is reminiscent to us of the Cartesian res extensa, although Descartes would not allow Philoponus' distinction between space and corporeal extension.
The second of these, angels, are the only pure minds in the created universe and they have no corporeal extension, no local presence or correspondence to time they are simple and indivisible existence.
One could conceivably interpret this to mean that the garments of corporeal substance, namely extension, shape, position and movement are the garments supplied by the mind as the forms or the conceptions under which the mind grasps material things.
One virtue of this interpretation, he argues, is that it establishes an isomorphism or identity of structure between intelligible extension and the corporeal world without making the former materially extended (2003, 600).
According to Descartes, the essence of body is extension; that is, a corporeal substance is simply a geometric object made concrete, an object that has size and shape and is in motion.
Thus, the citation for the letter to Gibeuf is: AT III 474; CSMK III 201. 2. It is worth mentioning that early in Descartes' career he appeared to think of ideas as also being corporeal, that is, as modes of extension.
(G VI 598/AG 207) But Cartesian corporeal substance, insofar as its essence is extension, cannot be itself a source of activity.
Thus, Cartesian corporeal substance, the essence of which is simply extension, cannot exist as substance.
The corporeal world will return to its incorporeal essence, and place understood as the extension will return back into its cause or reason as a definition in the mind (V.889d).
