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Les dessinateurs humoristiques sont sensibles aux folies du monde.
Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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Some of them, such as God and the soul, can endure in their incorporeality outside sensibles.
Boundary Varzi, Achille 2008
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If Aristotle is right, Plato's problem with sensibles is that they change.
Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008
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Aristotle asserts that Plato thought that definitions could not be found in the sensibles because they were always changing.
Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008
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Looked at in this light, the factor responsible for the deficiency of sensibles is that their properties are contingently related to them, in contrast to the Forms whose properties are necessarily stuck to them with ˜logical glue™ (see Vlastos 1969; Code 1993).
Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008
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Following Aristotle's lead, a most economical way to account for the cognitive superiority of Forms and the inferiority of sensibles would be to allot essences only to the Forms.
Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008
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Plato, accepting this, thought that this (defining) comes to be about different things, and not about sensibles.
Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008
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How we are to conclude that one cannot derive the knowledge of the Form from the sensibles is not revealed.
Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008
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This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.
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Les régies de transports s'apprêtent à mettre en place des déviations pour éviter les zones sensibles.
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