Sentence examples for passive affects from inspiring English sources

We can never eliminate the passive affects entirely.

Because Spinoza thinks that our moral improvement results from our gaining greater power over the passive affects and becoming more active, our mind's inability to represent things as necessary mean the prospects for moral perfection are quite dim.

On the other hand, only passive affects are passions: "an affect that is called a Passion [pathema] of the Mind is a confused idea by which the Mind affirms of its Body, or some part of it, a greater or lesser power of existing [existendi vis] than before, which, when it is given determines the Mind to think of this rather than that" (III Gen. Def. of the Affects).

If one side is overly aggressive or passive, it affects the balance of the negotiation and its associated tone, which can, in many cases, affect the outcome.

He opined that teenage pregnancy was a passive problem affecting gender equality, education levels, and the empowerment of young women and girls.

The stability of the passive film affected the corrosion behaviour of the sealed coatings.

Significant sulphidation of the passive film affected the nature of cathodic behaviour of steel and helped to impede micropit growth.

This means that the active (principle) is at the same time active and passive, being affected in the course of its activity (as principle).

Thus, if passive smoking affected this analysis it is likely that the association between active smoking and risk is stronger than what we reported here.

The understanding of passive smoking affecting children's lung was low (20%) and a similar proportion voiced concern about the bad influence of maternal smoking on children.

With regard to different types of exercise (for example, hand or lower limb), previous studies have reported that both active and passive exercises affect cerebral blood velocity [ 19, 23].