Sentence examples for plastic nature from inspiring English sources

While a trend in the direction predicted by selection does not allow us to tease apart evolution from plasticity, the plastic nature of a change is apparent if the change occurs in the opposite direction of what is predicted by the direction of selection.

However, whether these local neural structures would be of plastic nature, and how such plasticity might participate in specific metabolic events of WAT, remains largely uncharacterized.

Due to non plastic nature, plastic limit and the plasticity index values could not be determined.

A man of soft, plastic nature, Einstein was helpless in their hands.

So I like the plastic nature of how I'm able to work in digital.

The former is considerably greater than either of the latter, indicating that montmorillonite has a prominent plastic nature.

Unlike Spinoza and Leibniz (below), Cudworth does not have the same interest in articulating a "natural" account of consciousness or mental activity, since the plastic natures themselves are sources of divine activity and providence.

The PSR, she later tells us, banishes these unintelligible principles such as "plastic natures, vegetative souls" (IP §10, p. 131).

In something like the way that our (immaterial) minds intelligently guide our bodies, plastic natures intelligently guide the bodies that compose the plant and animal and mineral world.

Accounting for natural change by appeal to bits of matter interacting through lawful motion and contact but not by appeal to plastic natures and vegetative souls is consistent with the PSR.

On Cudworth's view, the orderly behavior of bodies is secured by immaterial minds (or plastic natures) that attach to bodies and work to keep them on the rails.