单词 | res extensa |
释义 | res extensan. Philosophy. Matter, material substance; a material body. Cf. res cogitans n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > thing or material object thingOE bodya1398 objecta1398 substance1525 cheat1567 solidity1604 article1618 material objecta1651 res extensa1652 extensum1678 businessa1684 animal1729 materiate1755 affair1763 thingy1787 fellow1816 concern1824 jockey1827 toy1895 yoke1910 doojigger1927 bitch1951 1652 W. Charleton Darknes Atheism 12 I conceive my self to be Res cogitans, a thinking ens, and look not upon my self as Res extensa, a quantative or extensive. 1698 J. Harris Atheist's Objections, Refuted 13 Matter or Body he asserts to be one of the Attributes of this Substance, or the Mode by which God is considered as Res extensa. 1846 E. A. Hitchcock Doctr. Spinoza & Swedenborg Identified 7 Again (Spinoza says) ‘I understand by Body, a mode by which the essence of God, in so far as he is considered as Extension (res extensa, an extended thing) is expressed in a certain and determinate manner or mode.’ 1904 J. Iverach Descartes, Spinoza & New Philos. x. 195 [In Spinoza] God is a Res extensa. 1940 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 1 181 This cosmos of meaning and unmeaning into which man is born, this rich structure of all kinds of relationships, is levelled down to the status of res extensa. 1962 M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 247 The mental res cogitans and the material res extensa. 1995 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Island of Day Before 88 I have great respect for this use of Mechanical Instruments to understand, as they say nowadays, the Res Extensa. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1652 |
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