Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without a part; not sharing.
  • Without good parts.

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  • adjective philosophy Having no parts.

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Examples

  • And who can accept a soul described as partless and massless and yet, for all that absence of extension, extending over a universe?

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • Just goes you injured yourself you not partless than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhoneNickBarnett

    Green Bay Packers' injured players will get to say 'cheese' for team photo Cindy Boren 2011

  • The problem lies in the instinctive human conviction that one is a permanent, partless, and autonomous self, essentially disconnected from and unaffected by flux and contingency.

    Bhagwan Chowdhry: Buddhist Emptiness For Scientists, Engineers And Mathematicians Bhagwan Chowdhry 2011

  • The problem lies in the instinctive human conviction that one is a permanent, partless, and autonomous self, essentially disconnected from and unaffected by flux and contingency.

    Bhagwan Chowdhry: Buddhist Emptiness For Scientists, Engineers And Mathematicians Bhagwan Chowdhry 2011

  • Buddhist philosophers distinguishing the selflessnesses of the person and of phenomena (partless particles, lack of external phenomena, true existence of mind and ultimate truth).

    Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary 2010

  • Buddhist philosophers distinguishing the selflessnesses of the person and of phenomena (partless particles, lack of external phenomena, true existence of mind and ultimate truth).

    Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary 2010

  • Buddhist philosophers distinguishing the selflessnesses of the person and of phenomena (partless particles, lack of external phenomena, true existence of mind and ultimate truth).

    Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary 2010

  • Buddhist philosophers distinguishing the selflessnesses of the person and of phenomena (partless particles, lack of external phenomena, true existence of mind and ultimate truth).

    Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary 2010

  • Thus the argument leaves room for the idea that souls are not forms, but are nevertheless intelligible, partless and imperishable (contra Robinson 1995, 29).

    Ancient Theories of Soul Lorenz, Hendrik 2009

  • Introducing the idea of unnoticed oscillation of a single, partless mind is highly ingenious and must have been dialectically effective at least to some extent.

    Ancient Theories of Soul Lorenz, Hendrik 2009

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