Sentence examples for extended matter from inspiring English sources

Unlike Descartes' purely extended matter, which can exist on its own having only size and shape, many scholastic Aristotelians held that prime matter cannot exist on its own.

Since on which side soever he views it, either as an unextended Substance, or as a thinking extended Matter; the difficulty to conceive either, will, whilst either alone is in his Thoughts, still drive him to the contrary side".

If God creates extended matter, and then, in a separate act, sets it in motion, the attribute of Extension would not suffice as an eternal expression of infinite essence, since it requires God's additional action in its expression of power.

Desgabets claimed that the corporeal form of all particular bodies results from an assemblage of the local dispositions of matter, and that these dispositions of matter in turn come from extended matter.

This has led Linda Janik to helpfully characterize Du Châtelet's account of the created world as a three-tier account (Janik 1982, 106): the basic metaphysical tier of unextended monads, the subvisible physical tier of (for Du Châtelet) extended matter which is also imbued with derivative force, and the visible physical tier of bodies in motion and at rest.

Since Aristotle's concern in discussing (4) is with the nature of the parts of definitions and not with questions of extended matter, it is unclear whether the non-definitional parts are potential extended parts or merely forms of extended parts, although the former seems more plausible.

Thus, "light by the infinite multiplication of itself extends matter into larger and smaller finite dimensions that stand to one another in all ratios, numerical and non-numerical" (Lewis 2013, 241 242).

A simple form without dimension could only have this effect, however, if it instantaneously multiplied and diffused itself in all directions, thereby extending matter along with its diffusion of itself.

The judge explained that since the actress's 5150 hold has been extended, "the matter can be revisited at a future hearing, when more information has been gathered".

But Dr Treu found that the dark matter extended further than the visible matter, forming a halo around it.

Keeping then in consideration all the successive modes, it is possible to extend the matter in order to determinate all the successive residues.