Sentence examples for substances extension from inspiring English sources

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With the collapse of the divide between created substances and the infinite substance, attributes play a new role for Spinoza; traditional divine attributes are eliminated while attributes traditionally associated with created substances (Extension in particular) are attributed to the infinite substance.

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extension of the catalog of restricted substances (Annex II of Directive).

This would require an extension of the scope of the Directive in two aspects: expansion of product scope to other products in addition to electrical and electronic equipment and extension of the catalog of restricted substances (Annex II of Directive).

A body is a (finite) substance, and extension is its attribute.

One could conceivably interpret this to mean that the garments of corporeal substance, namely extension, shape, position and movement are the garments supplied by the mind as the forms or the conceptions under which the mind grasps material things.

Gassendi wonders how Descartes could take the mind to be thinking substance lacking extension yet claim that it is somehow attached to the body, given that anything joined to a body must itself be extended (O III (DM) 399b-401a; R 584-590).

In retrospect, however, it must be acknowledged that Descartes' classification of material substance with extension, as exemplified in his demand that there exists nothing in bodies except "certain dispositions of size, figure and motion", is so open-ended and equivocal as to easily accommodate both of the interpretations surveyed above.

(G VI 598/AG 207) But Cartesian corporeal substance, insofar as its essence is extension, cannot be itself a source of activity.

As the name suggests, materialists historically held that everything was matter — where matter was conceived as "an inert, senseless substance, in which extension, figure, and motion do actually subsist" (Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge, par. 9).

Inasmuch as smaller pore sizes are filled with extracellular substances and filopodial extensions of plasma membranes, transfilter bone induction cannot be offered as evidence of action of a diffusible molecular species.

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

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