Dormitive

John Tarrant on “Placebo, chronic fatigue and dormitive principles” ❋ Unknown (2009)

And that is exactly why I say "intelligence" in the context of ID is a dormitive principle: ❋ Unknown (2008)

Allen's dormitive argument regarding the "Intelligent" in "Intelligent Design" was lame when he said it it's still a non-starter. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Please drop this part, since you already agreed that it was a dormitive principle explanation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Saying X is intelligent because it created the CSI is circular (dormitive principle): You explain how CSI is created by intelligence, and you know it was intelligence only because it created the CSI. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This is the dormitive principle problem that we have talked about. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You removed any semblance of the supposed dormitive and/or vacuous nature of the claims and created a scenario where "athleticism" can be concluded, does give you information, and does play an explanatory role. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Intelligence is not defined as that which is intelligent, and Allen and your dormitive accusation is unjustified. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And that is exactly why I say "intelligence" in the context of ID is a dormitive principle: "¨Q: What caused the CSI in biology?" ❋ Unknown (2008)

You could simply redefine athleticism as "that which enables things to move around", but then you have a dormitive principle. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This is the dormitive I take to bedward; I need no other laudanum than this to make me sleep; after which I close mine eyes in security, content to take my leave of the sun, and sleep unto the resurrection. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Because it possesses a dormitive power producing sleep. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Molière famously quipped, in Le Malade Imaginaire, that a philosopher might explain why opium puts people to sleep by mentioning the fact that it has a "dormitive virtue". ❋ Fara, Michael (2006)

To have a dormitive virtue, it seems, is just to have a property that puts people to sleep, and that fact tells us nothing about why substances with that property put people to sleep. ❋ Fara, Michael (2006)

But it is moreover wholly evident, that we may employ this argument to all those things which are called and esteemed bitter, sweet, purging, dormitive, and luminous, not any one of them having an entire and perfect quality to produce such effects, nor to act rather than to be acted on when they are in the bodies, but being there susceptible, of various temperatures and differences. ❋ Unknown (2004)

[Malcolm] started telling me about his weekend, so [dormitive] Jenny had to [wake] me. ❋ AKACroatalin (2016)

[Robert] is [one] dormite [sum bitch]... ❋ Robert (2005)