Sentence examples for indivisible body from inspiring English sources

A classical ballet dancer controls and moves her entire indivisible body, but her most dramatic movements concern her two legs and two arms, which we can think of as pairs: two couples sharing the same torso.

In claiming primary use of the general proficiency model, the IELTS speaking sub-test asserts the notion that there is some varying technically analysable, but fundamentally indivisible body of language knowledge within each test taker, and therefore, individuals can be ranked on the basis of this knowledge.

By positing indivisible bodies, the atomists were also thought to be answering Zeno's paradoxes about the impossibility of motion.

A fourth-century Pythagorean, Ecphantus, interpreted the Pythagorean monads as indivisible bodies: he is reported to have been sympathetic to atomism of a kind similar to Democritus'.

The atomists held that there are smallest indivisible bodies from which everything else is composed, and that these move about in an infinite void space.

According to Aristotle's presentation (On Generation and Corruption I 8), the motivation for the first postulation of indivisible bodies is to answer a metaphysical puzzle about the possibility of change and multiplicity.

These philosophers developed a systematic and comprehensive natural philosophy accounting for the origins of everything from the interaction of indivisible bodies, as these atoms which have only a few intrinsic properties like size and shape strike against one another, rebound and interlock in an infinite void.

As well as postulating the existence of indivisible smallest bodies and magnitudes, Diodorus seems to have supposed that there are indivisible smallest units of time.

He agreed with Democritus 1) "that human beings do not grasp true knowledge of the things that are, but define them as they believe them to be" (DK I 442.7 8; cf. Democritus Frs. 6 10) and 2) that all sensible things arise from indivisible first bodies and void.

The results emphasized the indivisible unity of body and mind.

Lately, scientists have begun to approach consciousness in more Spinozist terms: as a complex and indivisible mind-brain-body system.