Thus, they can be known only indirectly, by intellectual analysis, as the metaphysical principles of bodies.
Directly after rejecting atomic theories, he says "if we apply the term elements, or principles of bodies, to express our idea of the last point which analysis is capable of reaching, we must admit, as elements, all the substances into which we are capable, by any means, to reduce bodies by decomposition" (1789, p. xxiv).
"However much I agree with the Scholastics in this general and, so to speak, metaphysical explanation of the principles of bodies," he wrote to Arnauld in July 1686, "I am as corpuscular as one can be in the explanation of particular phenomena, and it is saying nothing to allege that they have forms or qualities" (Gerhardt 1875, 2 58, trans. Mason 1967).
One of the fundamental principles of that body of law is that combatants cannot target civilians.
The principles of rigid body motion were used to measure (micro) motion across the SCO.
The associations and changes in plasma C18 and LC PUFA followed the competitive and metabolic principles of the body, and especially in the case of n-3 PUFA according to the recycling pathway.
Relative gap displacement of two bone segments in the sagittal and frontal plane was analyzed using classical principles of rigid body mechanics [ 16].
Further, according to Cartesian metaphysics, extension is the principle attribute of body, and as such cannot exist independently of body (nor can body exist independently of it).
This study also confirmed a third study that found that much of worm locomotion can be summarized as transitions between four 'eigenworms', postures that correspond to the principle components of body curve geometry [ 35 ].
For only animal souls can be organizing principles of animal bodies.
