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Being to Hobbes ( and the other empiricists ) is the physical universe: The world, ( I mean ... the Universe, that is, the whole masse of all things that are ) is corporeall, that is to say, Body ; and hath the dimension of magnitude, namely, Length, Bredth and Depth: also every part of Body, is likewise Body ... and consequently every part of the Universe is Body, and that which is not Body, is no part of the Universe: and because the Universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing ; and consequently no where.
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Being and Hobbes
" The words " Is, or Bee, or Are, and the like " add no meaning to an argument nor do derived words such as " Entity, Essence, Essentially, Essentiality ", which " are the names of nothing " but are mere " Signes " connecting " one name or attribute to another: as when we say, A man, is, a living body, wee mean not that the Man is one thing, the Living Body another, and the Is, or Being another: but that the Man, and the Living Body, is the same thing ;...." " Metaphysiques ," Hobbes says, is " far from the possibility of being understood " and is " repugnant to naturall Reason.
These lectures, first printed separately, were afterwards published together under the title of A Discourse concerning the Being and Attributes of God, the Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainly of the Christian Revelation, in opposition to Thomas Hobbes, Spinoza, the author of the Oracles of Reason, and other Deniers of Natural and Revealed Religion.
** Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
Being and other
Being built primarily for speed, borzoi do not carry large amounts of body fat or muscle, and therefore have a rather different physiology to other dogs of similar size ( such as the Newfoundland, St. Bernard, or Alaskan Malamute ).
Being venues of identity construction justifies collective protections of communities in law, while the boundaries with other communities, states, and global forces should be sensitive to preservation of various cultures.
Being a bishop was a position that gained power because bishops and other key religious figures could withstand the constant change of government and political leaders allowing them to become an authority on the city and its political endeavors.
Being a versatile denominator in fractions may explain why we have 12 inches in an imperial foot, 12 ounces in a troy pound, 12 old British pence in a shilling, 24 ( 12 × 2 ) hours in a day, and many other items counted by the dozen, gross ( 144, square of 12 ) or great gross ( 1728, cube of 12 ).
Being on the curve might still not fully satisfy allocative efficiency ( also called Pareto efficiency ) if it does not produce a mix of goods that consumers prefer over other points.
Being much fewer in number than the Pharisees and the Sadducees ( the other two major sects at the time ), the Essenes lived in various cities but congregated in communal life dedicated to asceticism, voluntary poverty, daily immersion, and abstinence from worldly pleasures, including ( for some groups ) celibacy.
Being that ' Heart of Darkeness ' is such a relatively short story, it has perhaps generated proportionately more pure text of discussion-in the manner of interpretations of meaning, analysis, commentary, reviews, essays, and even provisions of historical context-than any other work in English literature.
Being animals, invertebrates are heterotrophs, and require sustenance in the form of the consumption of other organisms.
Being a multi-party system, the government of Lithuania is not dominated by any single political party, rather it consists of numerous parties that must work with each other to form coalition governments.
Adler divides these second-order philosophical problems into two branches: one addressing the objects of thought, such as Being, Cause, Change, Infinity, Destiny, and Love ; the other addressing the subjects, or procedural domains, of thought, e. g. philosophy of religion, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, philosophy of science.
: " Pantheists are ‘ monists ’... they believe that there is only one Being, and that all other forms of reality are either modes ( or appearances ) of it or identical with it.
Monistic theism, which includes the concept of a personal god as a universal, omnipotent Supreme Being who is both immanent and transcendent, is prevalent within many other schools of Hinduism as well.
Being much fewer in number than the Pharisees and the Sadducees ( the other two major sects at the time ), the Essenes lived in various cities but congregated in communal life dedicated to asceticism, voluntary poverty, daily immersion, and abstinence from worldly pleasures, including ( for some groups ) marriage.
Being a community about communities, MeatballWiki has become the launching point for other wiki-based projects and a general resource for broader wiki concepts and has reached " cult status ".
Being a Mentat can be a profession in itself, or the discipline can be added to other roles.
On the other end of the spectrum is the position that the Creator ( or a foreign Being, object, etc.
Being an Exact and True account ( by way of Journal ) of the various actions of infernal Spirits or ( Devils Incarnate ) Witches or both: and the great Disturbance and Amazement they gave to George Walton's family at a place called Great Island in the county of New Hampshire in New England, chiefly in throwing about ( by an Invisible hand ) Stones, Bricks, and Brick-Bats of all sizes, with several other things, as Hammers, Mauls, Iron-Crows, Spits, and other Utensils, as came into their Hellish minds, and this for space of a quarter of a year.
Being thus secure in Rome and the surrounding country, he next set himself to oust the Republic of Venice from Faenza, Rimini, and the other towns and fortresses of Italy which it occupied after the death of Pope Alexander.
It is possible, however, to modify patripassianism so as to acknowledge the Divine Being as having feelings toward, and sharing in the experiences of, both God-Incarnate ( Jesus ) and other human beings.
Being " R-like " is an elusive and ambiguous concept phonetically and the same sounds that function as rhotics in some systems may pattern with fricatives, semivowels or even stops in others — for example, " tt " in American English " better " is often pronounced as alveolar tap, a rhotic consonant in many other languages.
Being much less densely populated than globular clusters, they are much less tightly gravitationally bound, and over time, are disrupted by the gravity of giant molecular clouds and other clusters.
According to Article I of the " Rehat Maryada " ( the Sikh code of conduct and conventions ), a Sikh is defined as " any human being who faithfully believes in One Immortal Being ; ten Gurus, from Guru Nanak Dev to Sri Guru Gobind Singh ; Sri Guru Granth Sahib ; the teachings of the ten Gurus and the baptism bequeathed by the tenth Guru ; and who does not owe allegiance to any other religion ".
In other words, Heidegger believed all investigations of being have historically focused on particular entities and their properties, or have treated Being itself as an entity, or substance, with properties.
Being and is
Being less encumbered by material embodiments they partake more of what is divine.
Being convinced that salvation is alone by accepting Christ as Saviour, and being convicted by the Holy Spirit of my lost condition, I do repent of all effort to be saved by any form of good works, and just now receive Jesus as my personal Saviour and salvation as a free gift from Him.
Being a dimensionless fraction, it may also be expressed as a percentage, and is measured on a scale from zero for no reflecting power of a perfectly black surface, to 1 for perfect reflection of a white surface.
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.
Being now master of the empire, he is said to have abandoned himself to a life of debauchery.
Being a protective encasement with at least one gun position, it is essentially a pillbox or small fortress ( though these are static fortifications of a purely defensive nature ) that can move toward the enemy-hence its offensive utility.
Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is that which is a term used to describe basic principles of law that are accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.
Being is an extremely broad concept encompassing subjective and objective features of reality and existence.
In a single sentence, parallel to Aristotle's statement asserting that being is substance, St. Thomas pushes away from the Aristotelian doctrine: " Being is not a genus, since it is not predicated univocally but only analogically.
This comparison is the basis of his Analogy of Being.
Being and physical
Being healed has been described as a privilege of accepting Christ's redemption on the cross .< sup > p </ sup > Pentecostal writer Wilfred Graves, Jr. views the healing of the body as a physical expression of salvation.
Being a computer, HAL has no distinct physical form, though is visually represented as a red television-camera eye located on equipment panels throughout the ship.
The mistake that is often made here is to confuse the human being's understanding of his actions and of physical phenomena with the knowledge possessed by the Diving Being.
The traditional interpretation of Parmenides ' work is that he argued that the every-day perception of reality of the physical world ( as described in doxa ) is mistaken, and that the reality of the world is ' One Being ' ( as described in aletheia ): an unchanging, ungenerated, indestructible whole.
Being the smallest child in his Year Seven class, Hird often got knocked around playing league — the more physical of the three sports.
In 1987, Day-Lewis assumed leading-man status by starring in Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, co-starring Lena Olin and Juliette Binoche, as a Czech surgeon whose hyperactive and purely physical sex life is thrown into disarray when he allows himself to become emotionally involved with a woman.
The top of the Chain of Being, also external to creation, God was believed to exist outside the physical limitations of time and space.
For Medieval and Renaissance thinkers, humans occupied a unique position on the Chain of Being, straddling the world of spiritual beings and the world of physical creation.
As such, they were subject to passions and physical sensations — pain, hunger, thirst, sexual desire — just like other animals lower on the Chain of the Being.
They possessed physical appetites and sensory attributes, the number depending upon their position within the Chain of Being.
Being the realm of capitalist interests, there is a possibility of conflicts and inequalities within it ( ex: mental and physical aptitude, talents and financial circumstances ).
To these are to be added the Agent ( Efficient Cause ) and the End ( Final Cause ); but as the efficiency and finality are to be reduced, in ultimate analysis, to Form, we have in the physical order two ultimate principles of Being, namely, Matter and Form.
Being in peak physical condition, Buzz makes a perfect space ranger and is an example to many.
Life of Plotinus, chapters. 24-26 ) that the First Ennead deals with Human or ethical topics ; the Second and Third Enneads are mostly devoted to cosmological subjects or physical reality ; The Fourth concerns about Soul ; the Fifth to knowledge and intelligible reality ; and finally the Sixth has for topics Being and what is above it, the One or first principle of all.
* As part of an extended series of publications on science, Pope Pius XII publishes " The Technician " which instructs scientists to restrict themselves to the study of physical matter and do nothing to undermine the idea of a non-material soul or a Superior Being.
Being of two types, magnitude and multitude ( or number ), quantities are further divided as mathematical and physical.
Being an abstract entity, Death has no physical body, but usually appears in a female humanoid form, sometimes with a beautiful face or alternately with a bare skull, so it can be perceived by lesser beings.
Being three-fourths Layan, he lacks the physical powers of the other scions, but trades it for high technique proficiency.
Being a character of audio drama, his physical appearance is not entirely clear, but he is depicted with blond hair in the CD cover art, and is now over 60 years old, having attended college in the late ' 60s.
* Being mechanical devices they are more sensitive to physical shock and temperature changes than flash memory, though in practice they are very robust and manufacturers have added several features to the more recent models to improve reliability.
The Outer Being refers to the superficial and limited physical, vital and mental surface existence which characterises our everyday consciousness and experience.
The Inner Being includes the inner realms or aspects of the physical, vital and mental being, which here have a larger, subtler, freer consciousness than that of the everyday consciousness, and its realisation is essential for any higher spiritual realisation.
Being incorporeal, she has no physical body of her own and has to possess the body of others.
" Being a physical chemist, Szwarc set forth in understanding the mechanism of such living polymerization in greater detail.
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