Sentence examples for presupposes extension from inspiring English sources

Shape, recall, presupposes extension.

As Descartes puts it in the Principles, everything "which can be attributed to body presupposes extension, and is merely a mode of an extended thing," and so, "…shape is unintelligible except in an extended thing…" (AT VIIIA 25; CSM I 210).

Locke does find two instances in which we can discern necessary connections between qualities of bodies: "Some few of the primary Qualities have a necessary dependence, and visible connexion one with another, as Figure necessarily presupposes Extension, receiving or communicating Motion by impulse, supposes Solidity".

On the contrary, Ockham had claimed that it was superfluous to posit quantitative forms really distinct from substance and quality, since quantity presupposes what it is intended to explain, that is, the extension of material substances and their having parts outside parts.

Ockham had claimed that it was superfluous to posit quantitative forms really distinct from substance and quality, since quantity presupposes what it is intended to explain, i.e., the extension of material substances and their having parts outside parts.

Citizenship as legal status is what makes global citizenship conceivable, since there is no limit to the potential extension of rights, while the political dimension of citizenship presupposes a concept of political community that is richer but more limited (Cohen 1999, 249).

One of the main reasons why Bolzano's notion of deducibility presupposes the compatibility of the premises is that it renders possible the extension of deductive logic to inductive logic via probability.

On one version, in rationally choosing or valuing anything at all one must presuppose the supreme value of one's own rational capacities, and, by extension, the supreme value of rational capacities in general (Korsgaard 1996a and 1996b).

Collision presupposes space, but primitive forces constitute matter prior to any spatial concepts — the primitive active and passive forces ground motion and extension respectively.

"Which just presupposes a very short distance".

Forgetting presupposes remembering, Flige explained.