Sentence examples for extended substance from inspiring English sources

Most radically, Spinoza replaced Descartes's substance pluralism with a monistic account modelled on Cartesian extended substance.

Thinking substance is only the representation of it, with no content qua thought except that of substance, i.e. extended substance.

Moreover, whereas Cartesian extended substance is totally inert, Leibniz insisted that activity is the hallmark of substance.

Leibniz's insistence that every individual substance has a complete concept entailed that, unlike Spinoza, he regarded Cartesian thinking substance and not Cartesian extended substance as paradigmatic of substance.

It followed that, according to Spinoza, in order for thought to think God, or to think thought itself, it has to think extended substance.

The realms of the mental and the physical, for Leibniz, form two distinct realms but not in a way conducive to dualism, or the view that there exists both thinking substance, and extended substance.

But this absence does not prevent extended substances from being the substances they are.

If Descartes' possibles are just created thinking or extended substances, then presumably they are actuals and not possibles.

Since extension is conceptually divisible to infinity, Malebranche is committed to an infinite number of extended substances.

Some interpreters, accordingly, have held that, while perhaps not fully endorsing occasionalism across the board, Descartes did hold occasionalist views with regard to extended substances, or bodies.

Simple conceptions are the mind's grasp of things as they are in themselves, which is to say, in relation to their essence as extended substances, or as thinking minds.