ideal element
Britishnoun
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As the lightest metal on the periodic table, and the one most eager to shed its electrons, lithium is the ideal element to make powerful, portable batteries.
From Nature ● Oct. 27, 2015
The idealisation of science is simply a further development of this ideal element.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
It works by seizing upon the ideal element which is already there, conserving it, and developing it.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
It is on the latter or ideal element that Kant makes the emphasis increasingly turn.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In this shape, he represents the ideal element in things solely, and is our champion and our helper and we his helpers, against the bad parts of the universe.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James
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