isolable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- isolability noun
- nonisolable adjective
Etymology
Origin of isolable
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Note 14, page 123.—The psychological analogy that certain finite tracts of consciousness are composed of isolable parts added together, cannot be used by absolutists as proof that such parts are essential elements of all consciousness.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William
Other finite fields of consciousness seem in point of fact not to be similarly resolvable into isolable parts.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William
We shall see that matter has a tendency to constitute isolable systems, that can be treated geometrically.
From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur
This end is best fulfilled by conceiving entities that under some point of view are practically isolable from the context in which they occur.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
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