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Example sentences for: inanimate

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As the American philosopher Quentin Smith has pointed out, "If God created the universe with the aim of making it animate, it is illogical that he would have created as its first state something whose natural evolution would lead with high probability only to inanimate states ." The only way God could have ensured the appearance of creatures in his own image was by repeatedly intervening and making adjustments to steer the evolution of the world away from lifeless disaster.
--that, in the end, owes more to metaphysics (divining the essential natures of things as inanimate as software programs) than to reason.
They were animists who revered the spirits they believed to be in the living things and inanimate objects around them.
In a recent letter in Nature, “Lexical organization of nouns and verbs in the brain,” Alfonso Caramazza and Argye E. Hills reported on patients' relative ability to control specific semantic categories, such as abstract vs. concrete words, animate vs. inanimate, etc., based on the dysfunction of a part of the brain.
That's when she drops the article before some harmless inanimate object, lending it a kind of pseudohuman agency.