Sentence examples for lacking extension from inspiring English sources

Similarly, he writes in Primary Truths, "Something lacking extension is required for the substance of bodies, otherwise there would be no source [principium] for the reality of phenomena or for true unity… But since atoms are excluded, what remains is something lacking extension, analogous to the soul, which they once called form or species".

Aristotle had shown that a continuous magnitude could not be composed of points, that is, indivisible units lacking extension, but he had not shown that an indivisible unit must necessarily lack extension.

Gassendi wonders how Descartes could take the mind to be thinking substance lacking extension yet claim that it is somehow attached to the body, given that anything joined to a body must itself be extended (O III (DM) 399b-401a; R 584-590).

The cells acquired a rounded shape lacking extensions (Fig. 1B, upper right panel).

Since atomic elements lack extension, the nature of atomic interaction is not spatial.

Δ may be thought of as an entity possessing position and attitude, but lacking true extension.

The first is that the immediate objects of sight are two-dimensional manifolds of light and color, lacking perceptible extension in depth.

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Because core m3 glycans without LG domain-binding extensions are detected in other tissues, it is hypothesized that core m3 glycans lacking these extensions may play other roles.

The apical aspect of migrating tumor cells located above the endothelium was round in shape and lacking filopodial extensions, but contained smooth cortical actin staining (Fig. 1f).