Sentence examples for internal principle from inspiring English sources

If a body has an Aristotelian nature, it has an internal principle, which restricts the sorts of changes it can undergo from one moment to the next.

In his last formulations he relied on a theory that claimed the particles themselves were endowed with an internal principle that led them to arrange themselves to form specific parts of the fetus.

In his remark to this proposition, which clarifies this "law of inertia," Kant explains that inertia is to be contrasted with life or the ability of a substance to determine itself to act from an internal principle.

He held this view against that of the Peripatetics who believed that there must be an internal principle of thought in beasts because of the intricacy and apparent human-like intelligence of their movements.

He begins by pointing out that Leibniz says that the action of the primitive power ("the internal principle of a substance that brings about change, or the passage from one perception to another") "can be called appetition" (Monadology §15; also, Principles of Nature and Grace §2).

Thus, we represent the world in our perceptions, and these representations are linked with an internal principle of activity and change (Monadology, sec.15 (1714)) which, in its expression in appetitions, urges us ever onward in the constantly changing flow of mental life.

We can understand their internal principles; disruptions grow out of latent tensions.

Enterprises need to develop internal principles and processes that hold people, from the board to the newest hire, accountable.

Design-time governance can include industry guidance as well as internal principles, patterns, and best practices.

Even more strikingly, Hempel (1988a, 1988b) observed that the application of scientific theories presupposes the absence of factors that might affect the internal principles of the theory, which goes beyond the content of the theory itself.

(OPD 4: 132–133) In other words, no appeal to internal principles, or final causes is required to explain the movements of beasts, any more than it is needed to explain the movements of clocks.