What does extrinsical mean?
Extrinsical means (rare) Extrinsic..
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(rare) Extrinsic..
A body cannot move, unless it be moved by some extrinsical agent: we may easily frame a conceit, how absurd it is to think that a body, by a quality in it, can work upon itself.
Neither is the atom by any extrinsical impulse diverted from its natural course.
Outward objects, that are extrinsical to the mind; and its own operations, proceeding from powers intrinsical, and proper to itself, which, when reflected on by itself, become also objects of its contemplation, are the original of all knowledge.
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Extrinsical means (rare) Extrinsic..
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A body cannot move, unless it be moved by some extrinsical agent: we may easily frame a conceit, how absurd it is to think that a body, by a quality in it, can work upon itself.
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