Sentence examples for principles of all things from inspiring English sources

According to him, the dialectical discussion on the One and the Many (ta alla) reveals the first divine principles of all things.

The traditional translation reason-principles was chosen on purpose, because on an ontological level these same logoi serve as principles of all things.

The Pythagoreans thus concluded that things were or were made of numbers and that the principles of numbers, the odd and the even, are principles of all things.

Proclus himself often uses the term 'theology' in this metaphysical sense for the study of the first ('divine') principles of all things.

Theodoretus, Stobaeus, and Olympiodorus (all in A 36) credit him with a view of earth as the archê or "first principle" of all things.

According to Thomas Aquinas (ST I.3.8; SCG I.17; I.26), Amaury of Bne was condemned for saying that God is the formal principle of all things, an accusation of pantheism, which recalled Eriugena's statement that God is the 'form of all things' (forma omnium).

In his discussion, Aristotle links Thales' claim that the world rests on water with the view that water was the archē, or fundamental principle, and he adds that "that from which they come to be is a principle of all things" (983b24 25; 11A12).

There is a grain of truth in this, for when Thales (who flourished around 580) is reported as saying 'Water is the origin (or principle) of all things,' this is different from saying, for example, that Tethys is mother of all the rivers, because it deletes the character of narrative or story (Aristotle's Metaphysics, 983b20 8).

Pythagoras (6 BC) was the first to argue that the principle of all things is the number.

In addition to greatly overestimating the effectiveness of a nasty glance in a city with New York's supply of them, Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt expose the shortsightedness of applying market-based principles to all things (Freakonomics, Oct. 2).

Complex exhaustive cognition simpliciter is what enables us to know all the intrinsic constitutive principles of a thing along with all the essential predicates and characteristic features (propria) associated with these principles themselves.