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- He therefore assumed that everything was built up of tiny invisible blocks, each of which was eternal and immutable.†
Chpt 5immutable = unchangeable
- But however infinite they might be in number and shape, they were all eternal, immutable, and indivisible.†
Chpt 5
- But behind everything that flowed there were some eternal and immutable things that did not flow.†
Chpt 5
- Briefly, we can establish that Plato was concerned with the relationship between what is eternal and immutable, on the one hand, and what "flows," on the other.†
Chpt 9
- And yet in one sense, even Socrates and the Sophists were preoccupied with the relationship between the eternal and immutable, and the "flowing."†
Chpt 9
- By using our common sense we can all arrive at these immutable norms, since human reason is in fact eternal and immutable.†
Chpt 9
- By using our common sense we can all arrive at these immutable norms, since human reason is in fact eternal and immutable.†
Chpt 9
- He is concerned with both what is eternal and immutable in nature and what is eternal and immutable as regards morals and society.†
Chpt 9
- He is concerned with both what is eternal and immutable in nature and what is eternal and immutable as regards morals and society.†
Chpt 9
- He tried to grasp a "reality" that was eternal and immutable.†
Chpt 9
- Absolutely everything that belongs to the "material world" is made of a material that time can erode, but everything is made after a timeless "mold" or "form" that is eternal and immutable.†
Chpt 9
- But the "form" of the horse is eternal and immutable.†
Chpt 9
- That which is eternal and immutable, to Plato, is therefore not a physical "basic substance," as it was for Empedocles and Democritus.†
Chpt 9
- Plato's conception was of eternal and immutable patterns, spiritual and abstract in their nature that all things are fashioned after.†
Chpt 9
- In the midst of nature's cycle there were some eternal and immutable smallest elements that did not dissolve, they thought.†
Chpt 9
- He called this reality the world of ideas; it contained the eternal and immutable "patterns" behind the various phenomena we come across in nature.†
Chpt 9
- A philosopher, as we have seen, tries to grasp something that is eternal and immutable.
Chpt 9 *immutable = not subject to change
- This world of ideas cannot be perceived by the senses, but the ideas (or forms) are eternal and immutable.†
Chpt 9immutable = unchangeable
- No Innate Ideas Like the philosophers before him, Plato wanted to find the eternal and immutable in the midst of all change.†
Chpt 11
- He also agreed that the actual form of the horse is eternal and immutable.†
Chpt 11
- It is all very reminiscent of Plato's distinction between the concrete world of the senses and the immutable world of ideas.†
Chpt 17
- He therefore assumed that everything was built up of tiny invisible blocks, each of which was eternal and immutable.†
Chpt 22
- 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
- Both in ecclesiastic and scientific circles, the Biblical doctrine of the immutability of all vegetable and animal species was strictly adhered to.†
Chpt 29immutability = the quality of being unchangeable
- Plato's theory of ideas presupposed that all animal species were immutable because they were made after patterns of eternal ideas or forms.†
Chpt 29immutable = unchangeable
- The immutability of animal species was also one of the cornerstones of Aristotle's philosophy.†
Chpt 29immutability = the quality of being unchangeable
- Increasingly, he began to doubt that all species were immutable.†
Chpt 29immutable = unchangeable
Definitions:
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(1)
(immutable) unchangeable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)