Sentence examples for notion of void from inspiring English sources

The notion of void or empty space, claimed ar-Razi, is not destroyed along with imagined destruction of everything occupying it.

Hence one must distinguish between the notion of void space, which is not destroyed when one imagines the destruction of the universe, and the notion of place, which is destroyed when one imagines the destruction of the universe.

The notion of voiding the remaining contract, because of performance-enhancers, still seems far-fetched; Jason Giambi was in town this week with the Cleveland Indians, as if to underscore the point.

Aristotle himself had presented numerous physical impossibilities associated with a void, whereas Arabic-speaking philosophers explored the conceptually incoherent aspect of the notion of a void in order to show that its existence is impossible.

Aristotle had dismissed the notion of a void as a logical impossibility.

If this line of interpretation is followed, Leucippus' notion of atom and void might have been rather different from Democritus', and Aristotle's tendency to refer to the two in conjunction somewhat misleading.

But Democritus' version had been the object of critiques by later thinkers, especially Aristotle, in part for incoherencies in the notion of an infinite void, in part for problems attaching to his idea of minima, or entities of the smallest conceivable size (see especially Physics Book 6).

Feminists say the law damages children's rights by voiding the notion of statutory rape.

Now, too, it has a plan to remake itself into an institution with weight across Afghanistan, instead of the relic it became in the years when war and lawlessness voided the very notion of an effective central bank.

Thus he distinguished between time (a relative temporal notion) and duration (an absolute temporal notion) as well as between place (a relative spatial notion) and void (an absolute spatial notion).

Figure 3 Prevention of void nodes.