Sentence examples for primitive forces from inspiring English sources

"It helps you see more clearly in the present...because emotions are strong primitive forces in our brain system, it's very hard to keep your thought processes interacting with your emotional processes in a conscious way," McGarvey says.

It is widely accepted that Leibniz's primitive forces are supposed to serve as the intelligible metaphysical grounds for the forces that are of concern in physics, and more specifically that active derivative forces are to be grounded in active primitive forces while passive derivative forces are to be grounded in passive primitive forces.

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

Furthermore, there is no denying that Leibniz sees his distinction between active and passive primitive forces as being in some way analogous to the distinction between Aristotelian form and matter.

He holds that while derivative forces are of primary interest to the working physicist, they are metaphysically secondary to primitive forces, and he speaks of the former as being "modifications" or "limitations" of the latter (GM VI.236/AG 119).

Since all sensible properties are considered by Wolff to be secondary qualities, extension, or a composite's extendedness, results from the primitive forces of a composite at the atomic level.

Making music of wild and primitive force is not a simple matter.

"La Danse" (1909), by Matisse, gave a new primitive force to the idea of dancers making a circle, but that idea was old.

"Materia-Peu," a red panel bearing a big, cartoonish concrete footprint with a cross gouged into it, has a primitive force, while poetic delicacy marks an assemblage of a cast bronze fan and three white eggs.

This is a dark-age power at work in a modern, high-tech society – a society that feels profoundly threatened by such a primitive force, but wants to exploit it too.

Here he mans up to become the comic aggressor, the unstoppable, primitive force of chaos that rages through Mr. Hirson's 1991 play in verse about the ruination of theater, set in the age of Molière.