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Example sentences for "purely physical"

  • For to all that happens through the action of the chemical ether there belongs the quality of cosmic youth, while everything brought about in a purely physical manner is of necessity cosmically old.

  • It is gradually enclosed by this, and evolves finally into that part of the finished eye which embodies the optical apparatus functioning according to purely physical laws.

  • The formation of a thin membrane at the surface of the structureless plasma granule may be explained as a purely physical process--that of surface strain.

  • When an activity is its own end in the sense that the action of the moment is complete in itself, it is purely physical; it has no meaning (See p.

  • As a purely physical aggregate--if our civilisation be that--our business is quickly to exterminate Monte and his whole breed.

  • It is difficult to discuss these ravages on a purely physical basis, for the ramifications of cruelty are cumulatively intense, the higher they are carried.

  • One can't, as a purely physical being, relate himself to mental processes; nor can one approach the super-mental area by the force of mentality alone.

  • The methods by which the advocates of a purely physical origin of life seek to establish the correctness of their conclusions, are unfortunately not always attended by uniform results in experimentation.

  • The explanation in question is of a purely physical character, and depends upon the non-achromatism of the eye.

  • Probably the most important is of a purely physical character.

  • The chemists generally take a purely physical view of the subject, and instead of trying to understand its mystical language, often (I do not say always) prefer to label it nonsense and the alchemist a fool.

  • Trace the line of life backwards and see it approaching more and more to what we call the purely physical condition.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cause and; classical literature; could think; different animals; each face; essential constituent; extra session; first secretary; giving him; good opinion; hell itself; mean anything; only tell; purely chemical; purely human; purely intellectual; purely logical; purely mechanical; purely objective; purely psychological; purely spiritual; purely subjective; purely vegetable; reasonable amount; went ahead; wide circle