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But then configuration cannot be that which individuates persons, for we would not know, given a replicated configuration, which body was the body or bodies of which person.

Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

What individuates concepts or names, is not what is in the head of speakers, but rather just their relation to Forms.

Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

If the body individuates flesh and spirit, singles me out, what does the soul do?

"It's like a man is in a car and the car is old and the man gets out of the car and rolls the car into the water into a lake." Ann Althouse 2008

They approach like automatons, but the artist individuates the men carefully, as specific characters, possibly portraits.

Iranian Illustrator's Allusive Eye 2008

If the body individuates flesh and spirit, singles me out, what does the soul do?

Time's Person of the Year. Ann Althouse 2007

Sometimes we simply do not know of a definite description that individuates the object we wish to refer to.

Nonexistent Objects Reicher, Maria 2006

Thus the form or essence of a thing, which individuates it, and whose retention through change constitutes the persistence of an individual, just is its inherent and individual power of striving to retain just form, hence to resist those extrinsic determinants that would diminish its power and destroy it.

Spinoza's Physical Theory Manning, Richard 2006

In other words, just as the local movements of matter individuate thought extrinsically giving the mind individual thoughts, the thought of immaterial substance individuates matter extrinsically thereby giving it individual bodies.

Robert Desgabets Easton, Patricia 2006

He argued that the embryo stops being a mass of cells and individuates at approximately 14 days after conception, so he favors allowing research on cells derived from younger embryos.

Summer Institute on Science and Religion at the Jefferson Center - The Panda's Thumb 2006

Another virtue of the idea that essence as active striving is what individuates bodies is that it would provide a basis in the nature of body for the principle of inertia, in such a way that inertia could be taken as a ground for the PLMM we earlier saw was needed to underwrite the collision laws.

Spinoza's Physical Theory Manning, Richard 2006