Sentence examples for idea of extension from inspiring English sources
Malebranche emphasized that the clear idea of extension must be distinguished from our confused sensations.
The first qualification is that God's idea of extension can reveal only the nature of bodies and not their existence.
In response, Sergeant attacked the Cartesian idea of extension, to which the aging Le Grand never publicly responded.
This may only require one idea of extension, but there also must be an idea of the mind.
We have seen that his late doctrine of the efficacious idea involved the position that we have pure intellectual perceptions produced by God's intellectual idea of extension.
Since bodies do not have these qualities, the idea of extension need not represent them, and once again God is spared from having to accommodate changeable entities.
The ideas of extension and the various geometrical figures are also immutable (or unchanging) and eternal in the sense that they did not come into being, and will not go out of being.
Intelligible extension, then, is just the idea of geometrical extension and its properties, or what in the seventeenth-century came to be known as the 'primary qualities.' Malebranche reduces these to two — figure (i.e., size and shape) and motion.
But the idea of an extension never made it out of Congressional committee.
To maximize Tulowitzki's trade value, O'Dowd said, he would have to deal him with two years left on his contract, giving some urgency to the idea of an extension.
