All 50 Uses of
accord
in
Sophie's World
- Man thought it was so astonishing to be alive that philosophical questions arose of their own accord.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- According to Anaximenes, air was therefore the origin of earth, water, and fire.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- According to Democritus, there is no conscious "design" in the movement of atoms.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- The founder of Greek medicine is said to have been Hippocrates, who was born on the island of Cos around 460 B.C. The most essential safeguards against sickness, according to the Hippocratic medical tradition, were moderation and a healthy lifestyle.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- There is a lot of talk today about "medical ethics," which is another way of saying that a doctor must practice medicine according to certain ethical rules.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- He required his pupils to take the following oath: I will follow that system or regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider to be for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- How could Lego blocks of their own accord find each other and become a new horse again?†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- According to Plato, man is a dual creature.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- According to Plato, the human body is composed of three parts: the head, the chest, and the abdomen.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- According to Plato, the soul had "seen" the "idea" chicken before it took up residence in a body.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- According to Aristotle, Plato was trapped in a mythical world picture in which the human imagination was confused with the real world.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- On the contrary, it is precisely reason, according to Aristotle, that is man's most distinguishing characteristic.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- Every change in nature, according to Aristotle, is a transformation of substance from the "potential" to the "actual."†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- According to Aristotle, nonliving things can only change through external influence.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- At the top of this "scale" is man—who according to Aristotle lives the whole life of nature.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- According to Aristotle, man's "form" comprises a soul, which has a plant-like part, an animal part, and a rational part.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- According to Plotinus, the soul is illuminated by the light from the One, while matter is the darkness that has no real existence.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- Your real "I"— which you can only experience if you are able to lose yourself—is, according to the mystics, like a mysterious fire that goes on burning to all eternity.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- According to Christian teachings, Jesus was the only righteous person who ever lived.†
Chpt 14 (definition 2)
- According to Christianity there is nothing in man—no "soul," for example— that is in itself immortal.†
Chpt 14 (definition 2)
- For a time he was influenced by Stoic philosophy, and according to the Stoics, there was no sharp division between good and evil.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- According to St. Augustine, the entire human race was lost after the Fall of Man.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- According to Aquinas, there was a progressive degree of existence from plants and animals to man, from man to angels, and from angels to God.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- According to Aquinas, these views harmonized with the message of the Bible—which, for example, tells us that woman was made out of Adam's rib.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- We can moreover note that, according to Aquinas, it is only as nature-being that woman is inferior to man.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- According to Luther, people did not need the intercession of the church or its priests in order to receive God's forgiveness.†
Chpt 16 (definition 2)
- According to him, souls were built up of atoms that are spread to the winds when people die.†
Chpt 17 (definition 2)
- According to Descartes, the idea of God is innate, it is stamped on us from birth 'like the artisan's mark stamped on his product.'†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- According to Descartes, this is just as certain as it is inherent in the idea of a circle that all points of the circle are equidistant from the center.†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- According to Descartes, the human body is a perfect machine.†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- people in his time were deeply fascinated by machines and the workings of clocks, which appeared to have the ability to function of their own accord.
Chpt 18 (definition 1) *own accord = own mind (voluntarily without anyone making it do so)
- The word 'automaton' means precisely that—something that moves of its own accord.†
Chpt 18 (definition 1)
- It was obviously only an illusion that they moved of their own accord.†
Chpt 18 (definition 1)
- According to Spinoza, we humans recognize two of God's qualities or manifestations.†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- But your thumb can only move according to its nature.†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- But she also lives according to the laws of nature.†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- According to Spinoza, this tree is free.†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- So, according to Hume, an 'angel' is a complex idea.†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- According to Hume and Buddha, yes.†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- According to Hume, a miracle is against the laws of nature.†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- But according to Hume, it is not reason that determines what we say and do.†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- According to Hume, everybody has a feeling for other people's welfare.†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- Alberto continued: "According to Berkeley, my own soul can be the cause of my own ideas—just as when I dream—but only another will or spirit can be the cause of the ideas that make up the 'corporeal' world.†
Chpt 22 (definition 2)
- According to Berkeley, all we can know is that we are spirit.†
Chpt 22 (definition 2)
- Now the Enlightenment philosophers saw it as their duty to lay a foundation for morals, religion, and ethics in accordance with man's immutable reason.†
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
- According to the Enlightenment philosophers, what religion needed was to be stripped of all the irrational dogmas or doctrines that had got attached to the simple teachings of Jesus during the course of ecclesiastical history.†
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
- You mean they lived according to their philosophy?†
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
- And even the law of causality—which Hume believed man could not experience—belongs to the mind, according to Kant.†
Chpt 24 (definition 2)
- According to Hume, we cannot per-ceive the black billiard ball as being the cause of the white ball's movement.†
Chpt 24 (definition 2)
- According to Kant, there are two elements that contribute to man's knowledge of the world.†
Chpt 24 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (accord as in: done of her own accord) mindeditor's notes: This sense of accord is typically seen in the form own accord or one accord.
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(2) (accord as in: according to, or in accord with) in keeping with; or in agreement/harmony/unity withThis meaning of accord is often seen in the form according to or accordingly where it can take on more specific meanings. For example:
- "According to Kim, ..." -- as stated by
- "To each according to her ability." -- based upon
- "Points are scored according to how well they perform." -- depending upon
- "The dose is calculated according to body weight." -- in proportion to
- "We got a flat tire. Accordingly, I pulled to the side of the road." -- because of what was just said; or as a result