antiphysical

Example Sentences

• "According to all the laws of hydrostatics, the water which flows into a brewery should leave it through its drains. Its exit in barrels on drays is antiphysical."
• "Quaternionics was in its vectorial aspects antiphysical and unnatural, and did not harmonize with common scalar mathematics."
• "The antiphysical suggestion of aluminum is at any rate a red herring, since even if we fancifully imagine that it is aluminum, the only way it could have gotten to glow so brightly is with a considerable amount of extremely powerful incendiary."
• "If one does not consider the movement in the representation, it appears as an antiphysical representation, the opposite of nature. But if one considers the creative impulse that melds one form into another, one sees nature itself as a growing and developing force."
• "The continuing impact on Jefferson of Reid's antiskepticism and that of his followers is clear in a statement he made to John Adams in 1820: "Rejecting all organs of information, therefore, but my senses, I rid myself of the pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical, so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind ."
• "She atchieved a transitory victory over the antiphysical appetites of the late king of Sweden, and for a time inspired him with a desire of natural pleasures;"