Sentence examples for infinite beings from inspiring English sources

This leads him to sketch a certain number of possible definitions (where he appears to take into account the teachings of Gregory of Rimini), as well as to raise other questions, e.g., on the relation between finite and infinite beings (in propositions such as 'Infinite things are finite [infinita sunt finita]'), on the divisibility of the continuum, and on qualitative infinity.

We are infinite beings full of potential to have an extraordinary impact in the world.

According to Jainism, life is omnipresent with infinite beings including microorganisms pervading each and every part of universe.

The remaining sections of the Metaphysical Disputations are centrally and recognizably discussions of kinds of being: infinite being, that is, God; finite being, what is created by God; and then the nature and features of finite beings, again as delineated by a theory of categories: substance and accident, and then all of the kinds of accident there may be.

Finally, Norris argues that the Quakers' divine light is contingent because it is a creature, so it cannot convey necessary and eternal truths; only an infinite being can be the source of the eternal truths (453 454).

BYRNE -- God is the infinite being and in so being is infinite in number.

Levinas asks: "[Is] the need for escape not the exclusive matter of a finite being?…Would an infinite being have the need to take leave of itself?" We are admittedly finite.

According to Thomas Aquinas, transcendental being extends only to created being, whereas Henry of Ghent and Meister Eckhart formulate a doctrine of the transcendentals in which God is the first known; Duns Scotus, finally, makes transcendental being indifferent to finite and infinite being; it is univocally common to God and creature.

For there to be anything else, G d's infinite being must recede, must make space.

Error is possible, according to Royce, only if there is an infinite being for which all intended objects could be realized.

For "infinite being" is a concept of something essentially one: a being that has infinity (unlimitedness) as its intrinsic way of existing.