Sentence examples for division of matter from inspiring English sources
The volume begins with excerpts from Leibniz's Paris writings, in which he tackles such problems as whether the infinite division of matter entails "perfect points," whether matter and space can be regarded as true wholes, whether motion is truly continuous, and the nature of body and substance.
He criticizes, for example, the Peripatetic hylomorphic division of matter and form, since hylomorphism becomes incompatible with the ontic luminosity of reality.
While mechanistic physics appeals to exact shapes like cubes, spheres and hooks, the actual infinite division of matter reveals that these can be at best approximations of the shapes of real bodies.
Kant identifies the inadmissible condition as the implicit taking of matter as a thing-in-itself, which in turn leads to the mistake of taking the division of matter into parts to subsist independently of the act of dividing.
Similarly, rather than apparently restricting the infinite division of matter to some select moving parts, Leibniz maintains that every part of matter is everywhere moving, and so the sort of accommodation envisioned by Descartes must occur everywhere (A. 6.3.565f; 6.3.58f).
Chemistry has traditionally distinguished itself from classical physics by its interest in the division of matter into different substances and in chemical combination, the process whereby substances are held together in compounds and solutions.
But whereas Descartes had insisted only on the "indefinite" division of "merely some part of matter" (AT VIIIA.60/CSM 239) Leibniz pushes for a stronger conclusion.
The actual infinite division of all matter is, of course, sufficient to rule out any standard picture of material atomism since any body that might lay claim to being an indivisible atom would itself be actually subdivided into smaller sub-bodies.
The rhetoricians offered rules for composition: how to elaborate a speech with ornamentation and, more important, how to organize a work through the dialectical skills of definition and division of the subject matter into analytical categories.
The latter claims that the lion's share is that of his late colleague, but the division of labour matters less than the final result.
It is the laws of your state along with strong negotiation on division of assets, matters concerning children and an abundance of other topics you are aren't even thinking about now, that are better handled by an expert.
