Impenetrability

BUT, Secondly, How can they prove Impenetrability is an Essential Attribute of Body; or that Penetrability is an Essential Attribute of Spirit?

The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy 1692

But remove this Attribute of Impenetrability from a Body, and it cannot be conceived any longer, as extended.

The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy 1692

Impenetrability, which is pretended to be the definition of matter, is only an hypothesis of careless naturalists, a gross conclusion deduced from a superficial judgment.

System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888

Impenetrability of expression is doubtless a valuable attribute to a joss.

Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

Impenetrability, solidity, weight, seem to me to be mysteries just as much as my soul, and, with much stronger reason, the union of the soul and the body.

Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850

And so from hence it appears that Impenetrability and Indiscerpibility, are not more Essential Attributes of Body, than of Spirit; because in one sence they agree unto either, in another sence unto neither.

The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy 1692

None, certainly, but these following as are Extension and Impenetrability, which nevertheless are but one Attribute; to which also may be referred Figurability and Mobility.

The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy 1692

But if there were no Impenetrability, as in the case of Body and Spirit, then there could be no resistance, and by consequence the Spirit could make no motion in the Body.

The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy 1692

Furthermore, how can a Spirit move its Body, or any of its Members, if a Spirit (as they affirm) is of such a Nature, that no part of its Body can in the least resist it, even as one Body is wont to resist another, when 'tis moved by it, by reason of its Impenetrability?

The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy 1692

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