Sentence examples for passive capacities from inspiring English sources

The first clause (i) is intended to distinguish the active capacities of animals from the merely passive capacities of lifeless material bodies, including the media through which sensible forms travel.

Natures as inner principles of change and rest are contrasted with active powers or potentialities (dunameis), which are external principles of change and being at rest (Metaphysics 9.8, 1049b5 10), operative on the corresponding internal passive capacities or potentialities (dunameis again, Metaphysics 9.1, 1046a11 13).

Thus any given active capacity will divide the range of passive capacities on which it is measured into two sets, every element of one of which is greater than every element of the other, and the limit of the capacity will be that unique capacity which is at the boundary between the two sets, either the greatest in the first set, or the least in the second.

Therefore, passive capacity cannot be described by a minimum quod non limit in each case.

He assumes here that every active capacity is measured against the resistance (the passive capacity) which it can overcome.

In some cases, there will be no greatest passive capacity by which the active capacity can be measured, but then (as long as the active capacity has some limit) there will be a least passive capacity that the active capacity cannot overcome.

Natures, then, in a way do double duty: once a nature is operative, neither a further active, nor a further passive capacity needs to be invoked.

According to Aristotle (Physics VIII), motion occurs only if the ratio of acting capacity (a force F) to passive capacity (a resistance R) is a ratio of major inequality, i.e., when it is greater than 1.

For a passive capacity of resistance, Kilvington accepts the minimum quod sic limit "with respect to circumstances"; he agrees with Aristotle and claims that to establish a passive limit for Socrates' capacity of vision, we should point to the smallest thing he can see.

The numerical results have been used to validate a dimensional analysis of trends in the actuation resistance of the structure with geometry, as well as the passive load capacity.

Smart nanoscale drug delivery systems combine the advantage of the small size, to achieve passive targeting capacity and enhanced cell internalization, with the ability to undergo morphological or chemical changes in response to the target-site microenvironment, leading to accelerated release in the disease milieu.