But, knowing of no rule or principle to which the collocations themselves conform, we cannot conclude that because a collocation is proved to exist within certain limits of place or time, it will exist beyond those limits.
These empirical laws may be of greater or less authority, according as there is reason to presume that they are resolvable into laws only, or into laws and collocations together.
The derivative law in this case depends not solely on laws, but on a collocation; andcollocations cannot be reduced to any law.
The collocations of the permanent causes are not reducible to any law 41 4.
Derivative laws, when not casual, are almost always contingent on collocations 78 2.
But this dependence and this efficacy have nothing logical about them; they are habitual collocations in the world, like lightning and thunder.
In the first place, they render the mind dissatisfied with the haphazard collocations of ordinary experience, and define the goal for its scientific endeavours.
The order and useful collocations of the universe may be only the changing phenomena of an impersonal intelligence and will, such as pantheism supposes.
The law, in short, of each of the concurrent causes remains the same, however their collocations may vary; but the law of their joint effect varies with every difference in the collocations.
Chalmers) collocations; the collocations consisting in the existence of certain agents or powers, in certain circumstances of place and time.
At one time charm and beauty of composition did result from these and similar collocations,—at other times from collocations not of this sort but the opposite.
If certain collocations of matter evince design, and must have had a beginning, the adaptation of the parts to form the collocation evinces design, and implies a beginning.
That any such gradations can be traced from the lowest vital unit, in the alleged collocations of molecules, is not yet claimed.
The disposition and collocations of matter are simply the conditions necessary to the manifestation of this primal force.
All the dividings, the gatherings, the organizings, the ordainings, and collocations suppose the prior existence of matter.
What these adjustments and collocations were, we are not able to say.
All that we mean by physical force is a force which acts upon matter, and produces in the motions and collocations of matter its appropriate effects.
The permanent and unchangeable substance is thus a mere fiction of ignorance, as there are only the passing collocations of qualities.
Certain collocations invariably and unconditionally preceded certain effects, but this cannot explain how the previous set of phenomena could be regarded as producing the succeeding set.
According to the Nyâya view there are no differences in the atoms of the same bhûta, and all differences of quality and characteristics of the compound of the same bhûta are due only to diverse collocations of those atoms.
It is this capacity of thecollocations that is called pramâ.na.
The rise of knowledge is thus only parallel to certain objective collocations of things which somehow have the special fitness that they and they alone are perceived at that particular moment.
Pramâ.na may also indeed mean the collocations so far as they induce the pramâ.
The conditions and collocations of the reals change constantly, but the reals themselves are unchangeable.
The derivative law in this case depends not solely on laws, but on a collocation; and collocations can not be reduced to any law.
But, knowing of no rule or principle to which the collocations themselves conform, we can not conclude that because a collocation is proved to exist within certain limits of place or time, it will exist beyond those limits.
Aphrodite), sometimes in such anomalous collocationsas Thetis and Hippolyte, or Danae, Helen, and Iphigeneia.
An empirical law cannot generally be extended, in reference to Place, even to adjacent cases (since there is no uniformity in the collocations of primaeval causes).
These are ordinarily true only within certain limits of time, place, and circumstance, since, beyond these, there may be different collocations or counteracting agencies.
To a materialist the ultimate power is mechanical force, and psychical life is nothing but the temporary and local result of fleeting collocations of material elements in the shape of nervous systems.
On the contrary, its manifest implication is that psychical life cannot be a mere product of temporary collocations of matter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "collocations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
