Sentences with phrase «inert things»

Neither can ideas themselves cause other ideas, for ideas are inert things.

For Descartes the most real things about himself were his feelings and thoughts that inert things and non-human creatures do not have.

It was a fabrication and brute assertion of the human will, an inert thing lying wholly within the power of the reductive intellect.

«It's easy to point the finger at the algorithm because it's this supposedly inert thing, but there are a lot of people behind the algorithm,» Diakopoulos says.

A switch from viewing the planet as an inert thing — which can be traded, damaged and which has no legal voice in itself — to one that is a living entity.

Not exact matches

Indeed the metaphysical opposition of mind and inert, inanimate thing - as - object itself thereby collapses.

Examples of imaginable worlds that would be incompatible with process metaphysics are: a world in which the elementary units of nature were enduring substances, especially if they were inert and fully determined; a world in which space and other things existed independently of temporal processes; a world in which an absolute gap separated living and nonliving things, or sentient and insentient individuals, or else a world in which there were no sentient things whatsoever.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful — corruption optimi, pessima.

Second, epistemologically speaking, Bergson means by «matter» the way in which the intellect approaches all things (whether vital or inert) as if they were simply the sums of their parts — parts that are subject to being disassembled and re-assembled in any order whatsoever to serve the abstract ends of the intellect itself or the purposes of the organism that intellect serves.

It includes the processive, societal, dynamic picture of the cosmos; it sees that we have to do with events or happenings and not with inert and static «things»; it insists on genuine freedom and readiness to accept the consequences of decisions made in that freedom; and it is prepared to see that however difficult this may seem to be, it is persuasion rather than coercion which in the long run is effective in the world.

According to supernaturalistic dualism there are two sorts of things, inert ones and self - moving ones.

The doctrine (widely held until recently) that «matter» itself is fully real (rather than an abstraction, derived from intellectual analysis of concrete really - existing things, as Aristotle held), and that such self - subsistent «matter» is intrinsically inert (as opposed to self - organizing), arguably reached its full flower in the late Renaissance.18 Part of contemporary divergence between theistic and naturalistic approaches may be understood to arise from overly complete internalization (by both naturalists and theists) of the cosmology that emerged from the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century — the cosmology in which «matter» was full real, but intrinsically inert.

Leibniz had also argued against most seventeenth - century thinkers, that whatever is purely inert, and without any capacity to act, is nothing, so that the source of the action of all things is intrinsic to them.

The universe is not a dark, inert set of atoms governed by physical laws that are mere projections of human effort but show that science itself indicates that the universe, indeed all things, are governed by a Unity - Law of Control and Direction, an intrinsic relationality, that God is «the sunshine of the soul» and His Son, Jesus, is our Saviour and Redeemer.

Things we thought were inert rocks were really powerful energy sources.

«And it's clearly telling us something important about why putting one thin layer of iron selenide on this substrate, which everyone thought was inert and boring, changes things so dramatically.

What seems like an inert and harmless thing, a soft pillowtop mattress, is often a source of exposure to harsh chemicals, EMFs amplified by innersprings, and other problems.

Other things you might try are adding supplementary brine, and / or weighting down the kraut with some inert object (s) like dishes or (clean) stones.

While there are a number of things to recommend within this live - action retelling of «a tale as old as time»... the movie, as a whole, feels strangely inert.

While there are a number of things to recommend within this live - action retelling of «a tale as old as time,» including many fine performances and the beautiful visual effects, the movie, as a whole, feels strangely inert.

What it is interested in, unfortunately, is lots of inert scenes in which McCarthy allows his characters to pontificate at length about Big Issues like death, love, money, despair, family and many other things.

Her performance is the least ostentatious thing to ever grace a Tom Hooper film (nearly good enough to make us forgive the filmmaker for his inert «Les Miserables «-RRB-.

At the veterinary clinic, a majority of cats will stay inert, which makes things much easier.

Organized around the concept that inanimate objects and inert cultural artifacts are conduits for narrative histories, the program considers how artists use moving images to extend the life of things and materials that would otherwise appear to be stable and resolute.

The only thing it's susceptible to is the cold and extreme heat but otherwise it's inert while oil is still changing.

You could do about the same thing by using an inert atmosphere, but I imagine that would create even more questions.

Regardless, the only thing the cold (passive or inert) object can do is modulate the cooling of the warm (heated) object.