Assertion: body | /r/CapableOf | operate by impulse
Facets:
value: on the grounds
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: “bodies operate by impulse and nothing else” (Essay, II.viii.11).
text: In correspondence with Locke that would prove to be influential, Bishop Edward Stillingfleet questioned this view from the Essay, contending that Locke must jettison the idea of human liberty if he insists that bodies can operate solely by impulse, presumably on the grounds that the human will cannot be understood to cause bodily action in that manner.