Sentence examples for imperfect copy from inspiring English sources

In other instances, the realm of observable facts is considered as an imperfect copy or imitation of eternal ideas, as in Plato's metaphysics of pure forms.

The poet as a man and poetry as a form of statement both seemed untrustworthy to Plato, who depicted the physical world as an imperfect copy of transcendent ideas and poetry as a mere copy of the copy.

The earliest surviving monument of Spanish literature, and one of its most distinctive masterpieces, is the Cantar de mío Cid ("Song of My Cid"; also called Poema de mío Cid), an epic poem of the mid-12th century (the existing manuscript is an imperfect copy of 1307).

However, when mutations are introduced, Avidians make imperfect copies of themselves at some given rate.

"Inevitably, mistakes in DNA replication and other mutational forces accumulate and create imperfect copies".

Once these are snipped too much by imperfect copying, a cell goes into senescence and stops dividing.

But that imperfect copying also causes the telomeres themselves to be whittled away each time a cell divides.

Plato believed that the true substances are not physical bodies, which are ephemeral, but the eternal Forms of which bodies are imperfect copies.

He considered these to consist of ideal forms ( eidos: "form") of which physical objects are never more than imperfect copies.

Both mechanism A and mechanism B show imperfect copying and extend poorly to arbitrary topology networks greater than 3-node motifs.

In addition, their (often imperfect) copies C' and D' are located internally [ 5].