divisibility Test An aid in determining whether a natural number is divisible by another natural number is called a divisibility test.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Valla's idea is that notions such as divisibility and quantity are properly at home only in the world of ordinary things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorenzo Valla] Reference

'The infinite divisibility of space implies that of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deductive Logic] Reference

But what has intellect to do with the divisibility of matter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

Their unequal divisibility in gelatin or collodion solutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883] Reference

Of course the divisibility belonging to the circle does not apply to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Enneads.] Reference

The infinite divisibility of atoms is like some propositions in geometry.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

Al-Sijistani, however, seems to be unclear about the divisibility of atoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Buddhist View of Islam] Reference

But while Berkeley claimed that the infinite divisibility of change and time.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME] Reference

The ancient pagans seemed to think that infinite divisibility belonged to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880] Reference

Again the divisibility of the hospital into four sections is also an advantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

It denies the divisibility of the one fact; but it does itself divide the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

Being simple, monads have neither parts, nor extension, nor form, nor divisibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Rationalism] Reference

But on occasion he takes the property of infinite divisibility as defining continuity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continuity and Infinitesimals] Reference

Aristotle builds a theory of continuity and infinite divisibility of geometrical objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aristotle and Mathematics] Reference

Ancient philosophers were divided on the question of the infinite divisibility of matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aether and Gravitation] Reference

The Atomic Theory suggests, therefore, that there is a limit to the divisibility of matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aether and Gravitation] Reference

The other determinables concern stamens, the corolla, forms of attachment, and divisibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Determinates vs. Determinables] Reference

The practical divisibility of matter disclosed by modern physics may well arrest and astonish us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference

And here too the same infinite divisibility might be urged, since future events are not ‘contiguous’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posterior Analytics] Reference

That divisibility does so we have already shown: that infinity does so will be made clear in what follows?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physics] Reference

The Dichotomy and Achilles paradoxes both rest explicitly on the limitless divisibility of space and time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continuity and Infinitesimals] Reference

But how can matter have motion by itself, as it has, according to all the ancients, extent and divisibility?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

The court did allow some possibility of the divisibility "through revolution, or through consent of the States.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lone Star of the Third World] Reference

The like subtlety arises touching the infinite divisibility of lines, from the same inability of thought to stop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

Matter, being eternal, must have had eternal properties — as configuration, the vis inertiæ, motion, and divisibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

But this divisibility is only a consequence of motion; for without motion nothing is divided, nor separated, nor arranged.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

The remarks form part of Aristotle's criticism of Anax - agoras 'theory about the infinite divisibility of material things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Somewhere there must be a limit to divisibility, which limit is determined by the specific nature of the things in question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

An interesting case in point is on the question of the infinite divisibility of matter, denied by ancient atomism, maintained by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

For example, we cannot conceive of an end to divisibility of space; and therefore we cannot conceive how we can reach a given point.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Infidelity and Back] Reference

The first question implies the more general problem of the divisibility of any unit, which has been debated by several philosophers.    From Wordnik.com.  [ORGANICISM] Reference

A third motivation concerned the logical problems, dating back to Zeno, that were understood to flow from assuming infinite divisibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century] Reference

However the proportionate reduction in supply/demand which can be accommodated depends on the divisibility of the secondaries into groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

Hylas should only have said to Philonous: We know nothing of the subject of this extension, solidity, divisibility, mobility, figure, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

For Ockham the principal difficulty presented by the continuous is the infinite divisibility of space, and in general, that of any continuum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continuity and Infinitesimals] Reference