But as matter is infinitely divisible and the original mixing of the elements was complete, they were, so to speak, mixed to an infinite extent.
If you {60} persist in saying it is simply many and not one, then it is divisible ad infinitum.
As to the infinite divisibility of space and time, and the riddles proposed thereupon by Zeno, Aristotle is of opinion that space and time are potentially divisible {293} ad infinitum, but are not actually so divided.
If it is divisible ad infinitum, we are faced with the contradiction of supposing that an infinite number of parts can be added up and make a finite sum-total.
For the many has magnitude, and as such, is divisibleinto parts.
Any quantity of space, say the space enclosed within a circle, must either be composed of ultimate indivisible units, or it must be divisible ad infinitum.
They aredivisible into two subclasses, Entomostraca and Malacostraca, each of which includes several orders.
The fallacy, as Hobbes hinted, lies in the tacit assumption that whatever is infinitely divisible is infinite; but the following solution (to the invention of which I have no claim) is more precise and satisfactory.
It is true that even these are co-extensive with all nature; the properties of the number four are true of all objects that are divisible into four equal parts, and all objects are either actually or ideally so divisible.
The true molluscs aredivisible into two great classes: the Acephalous, or Headless, and those having a head of structure more or less perfect, which are called Cephalous Molluscs.
The Conchifera aredivisible into two sections, Siphonida, from the animals having respiratory siphons, and Asiphonida, destitute of them.
But principles are indivisible, and elements are of divisible things.
Matter, however, is not divisible into parts except as regarded under quantity; and without quantity substance is indivisible, as Aristotle says (Phys.
And the same must of necessity be said of divisible places: and this is shown from the continuous movement of a body.
Yet even the intermediate divisible places are infinite, as was said above: but they are consumed by the continuity of the movement, as is evident from the foregoing.
Hence it follows regarding a body which is movable according to place, that it is divisible according to magnitude; but regarding an angel, that his power can be applied to something which is divisible.
But every body is in potentiality because the continuous, as such, is divisible to infinity; it is therefore impossible that God should be a body.
Between the two extreme limits there are infinite intermediate places; whether the places be taken as divisible or as indivisible.
This very fact that he can occupy the parts of two places appertains to the angel from this, that he can occupy a divisible place by applying his power; as a body does by application of magnitude.
Accordingly, since magnitude is infinitely divisible and the points in every magnitude are likewise infinite in potentiality, it follows that between every two places there are infinite intermediate places.
It is true that even these are coextensive with all nature: the properties of the number four are true of all objects that are divisible into four equal parts, and all objects are either actually or ideally so divisible.
These are again divisible into many tribes, almost all of whom weave.
The divisible is to Plato likewise the other as such, or in itself, and not of anything else.
We can embrace the three in the following formula: I posit in the Ego a divisible non Ego over against the divisible Ego.
True muscles are red, have a definitely circumscribed outline, and are divisible into head, fleshy portion or belly, and tail or tendon.
Tastes aredivisible accordingly into acid and alkaline savours.
They are divisible next of all into two great parties, into the terrestrial and cosmical, or vegetative and animal.
If we regard the vegetable trunk empirically; it is then divisible into three stages, whereof each consists of the organs of the three fundamental processes, which seek to separate from each other.
The vegetative osseous system is divisible into dermal, tracheal, intestinal, and vascular bones.
To determine the smallest numberdivisible by given numbers.
If a is a root of an algebraic equation, the first member is divisible by x - a.
It is of vast thickness, and probablydivisible into several formations.
The Suffolk crag is divisible into two masses, the upper of which has been termed the Red, and the lower the Coralline Crag.
The first "sub-order" is divisible into three "families.
The problems of thedivisible and the indivisible, of the simple and the complex, leading as they do to discussion of the presuppositions underlying the Leibnizian monadology, concern spiritual as well as material substance.
It also supplies, in the category of whole and part, a more fitting heading for those antinomy problems which deal with the unlimited and the limited, the divisible and the indivisible, the complex and the simple.
Similar is the subtlety about lines always divisible (however small parts we take), from the impotency of thought.
It may be added that if the parts of a divisible body were infinite in number, the parts of the whole would be equalled by the parts of the half, for in the infinite there can be no greater and less.
They are alsodivisible into groups of individuals, which breed freely together, tending to reproduce their like, and are physiological species.
It was formed by thirteen States, which was no moredivisible into fourths than fourteen.
If the objection arose from fourteen not being divisible in equal fourth parts, it was an objection to the constitution as originally made.
He wished to know, therefore, how the gentleman would, on his principle, calculate what were two-thirds of the members present when their whole number was not divisible by three?
All existence is divisible into grades, the lower grade being the matter whose form is constituted by the next highest grade.
If two numbers divisible by 9 be added together, the sum of the figures will be either 9 or a multiple of 9.
If two numbers are divisible by any one number, their sum and their difference will also bedivisible by the same number.
The other players each put in a certain number of counters agreed upon, a number that should properly be divisible by three.
The present constituents of the earth which are accessible for direct study are divisible into three parts.
In South Wales the Arenig beds[74] are chiefly composed of slates, and are divisible into an upper and lower group.
In Denmark the peat deposits of this age are divisible into five layers, characterised by different dominant forms of trees.
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