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These “contradictory tensions,” as poet Christian Bök points out, also shed light on the chasm between the “romantic tradition that depicts nature as a pantheistic avatar of a benevolent deity” and “the scientific tradition that depicts nature as a subdivisible continuum of objective phenomena.”

Christopher Dewdney Lemon Hound 2009

Some there are of great note who, not content with holding that finite lines may be divided into an infinite number of parts, do yet farther maintain that each of those infinitesimals is itself subdivisible into an infinity of other parts or infinitesimals of a second order, and so on ad infinitum.

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley 2006

There are to be found generic, that is specifically subdivisible, differentiae;

On the Parts of Animals 2002

First: According to magnitude I divide the whales into three primary BOOKS (subdivisible into CHAPTERS), and these shall comprehend them all, both small and large.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Yet a generic differentia must be subdivisible; for otherwise what is there that makes it generic rather than specific?

On the Parts of Animals 2002

Most of the other groups in each grade are also subdivisible, though some of them contain far fewer sub-classes than others.

Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

'Living Body;' and so on till 'Man' is reached; which, being _infima species_, is only subdivisible into individuals.

Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

If, having fixed our Species, we find them subdivisible, it is usual to call the

Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

To these James assigns, as times: for the first, six minutes; for the second, four; for the third, five; this last being again subdivisible into a space of two minutes, during which the "Chesapeake" was being lashed to her opponent, and the actual fighting on her decks, which Broke states did not exceed three.

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 1877

We must suppose it to be so, but it does not follow that we can know anything about it if it is divided into pieces smaller than a certain size; and, if we can know nothing about it when so divided, then, qua us, it has no existence and therefore matter, qua us, is not infinitely subdivisible.

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868