Sentence examples for simply extension from inspiring English sources

Second, if matter is simply extension, then there is in its nature no source of activity.

Thus, Cartesian corporeal substance, the essence of which is simply extension, cannot exist as substance.

No body whose essence is simply extension could therefore be a genuine created substance according to Leibniz.

Despite the mechanistic, non-teleological character of Descartes' analysis of motion and bodily interactions, there are many seemingly metaphysical and qualitative traits in Cartesian physics that do not sit comfortably with his brand of reductionism (i.e., that material bodies are simply extension and its modes).

And are American military actions simply extensions of Vietnam trauma?

He sees the issues he deals with now as simply extensions of what was being fought over in 1964.

Apparatuses aren't simply extensions of our muscles and brains; they are extensions of our relationships to others – family, friends, colleagues, and compatriots".

Some of them are simply extensions of the "classical" first-order logic e.g., modal logics and many versions of intensional logic.

Today's future-booster events, like the annual Consumer Electronics Show, tend to prize stories of novelty and innovation and yet, reading early Wired, it becomes clear that many of the inventions that claim to be new today are simply extensions of what came before.

One evening as I walked across the floor of the Imperial Palace casino — a cacophony of clanging bells and electronic arpeggios — it was easy to imagine that the hominids parked in front of the one-armed bandits were simply extensions of the machines.

As these models are simply extensions of atomistic-MD, existing all-atom simulation packages can readily be used with minimal changes.