Sentence examples for unity and plurality of from inspiring English sources

Bacon states: "We are concerned with this second proposition on the unity and plurality of the intellective soul.

He divides the work into seven chapters: (1) On the production of the parts of the soul; (2) On the Sensitive Soul; (3) On the Unity and Plurality of the Intellectual Soul; (4) On the Composition of the Rational Soul; (5) On the Powers of the Soul: whether they are parts of the soul; (6) On the Vegetative Soul; and (7) On the Parts of the Intellectual Soul.

Although Socrates' investigation of knowledge becomes more abstract when he introduces being, not-being, likeness and unlikeness, identity and difference, unity and plurality, to this group he adds the fine and the base, the good and the bad (185c-186a).

But, Kant claims further that difficulties that arise in the representation of infinities in which one allegedly represents unity and plurality with no resulting representation of number reveal that a concept of number must require the mediation of "a special act of the understanding" (B111).

For all things are either contraries or composed of contraries, and unity and plurality are the starting-points of all contraries.

The concept of number is treated as "belonging" to the category of "allness" or totality, which is itself thought to result from the combination of the concepts of unity and plurality (Parsons 1984).

Again, in answer to the problem of unity and plurality — e.g., how can a thing be individual and distinct and yet a member of a class of things of the same kind?

It also presupposes the knowledge of what constitutes the objects' internal unity and plurality.

What Plato actually suggests is that Zeno aimed to show those whose superficial understanding of Parmenides had led them to charge him with flying in the face of common sense, that common sense views concerning unity and plurality are themselves riddled with latent contradictions.

"Again, in the list of contraries one of the two columns is privative, and all contraries are reducible to being and non-being, and to unity and plurality, as for instance rest belongs to unity and movement to plurality.

This tension between unity and plurality leads in two different directions, one practical and the other theoretical.