Solidity

In short, I†™ m saying that Marx had it almost right: Solidity is not melting into air.

inkblurt · Dibbell on the game-reality shift 2007

Solidity cooperates, rather than competes, with openness.

Beauty That's No Illusion Willard Spiegelman 2011

But he exercises this Right in such a Manner as to convince every one, that his having Recourse to it is not the Effect of Sterility of his Fancy, but to the Solidity of his Judgement.

Imitation of life Matthew Guerrieri 2007

But he exercises this Right in such a Manner as to convince every one, that his having Recourse to it is not the Effect of Sterility of his Fancy, but to the Solidity of his Judgement.

Archive 2007-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Locke does find two instances in which we do discern necessary connections between qualities of bodies: “Some few of the primary Qualities have a necessary dependence, and visible connexion one with another, as Figure necessarily presupposes Extension, receiving or communicating Motion by impulse, supposes Solidity.”

Locke's Philosophy of Science Kochiras, Hylarie 2009

The Castle signifies ‘Safety’ and ‘Solidity’ key features of the island and its safe environment free from predators for many of the creatures that use it to rest, breed and live on over the course of the years .

The Sgarabhaigh Silver Sixpence : Coin Collecting News 2009

"Solidity today is priority number one," Mr. Passera told analysts.

Intesa Hangs on to Dividend Cash 2008

Solidity consists chiefly in a uniformity of ideas.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Solidity and extension, and the termination of it, figure, with motion and rest, whereof we have the ideas, would be really in the world as they are, whether there were any sensible being to perceive them or no: and therefore we have reason to look on those as the real modifications of matter, and such as are the exciting causes of all our various sensations from bodies.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

Solidity is hereby also differenced from hardness, in that solidity consists in repletion, and so an utter exclusion of other bodies out of the space it possesses: but hardness, in a firm cohesion of the parts of matter, making up masses of a sensible bulk, so that the whole does not easily change its figure.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007