| To explain why opium really has this dormitive virtue, we arguably need to find what is often referred to as the relevant active ingredient. |
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| It seems to me that the notion of a claimable is as useless for explanatory purposes as that of dormitive power. |
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| For laudanum to have a dormitive virtue is for any quantity of it to have or contain a power. |
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| If we believed that there was nothing in the draught which could be singled out as the ground or source of the dormitive power, then the property would indeed be a strange one. |
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| Unlike the substantial forms derided by early modern philosophers as dormitive virtues, properties will pay their way by doing interesting and important work. |
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| We note Bateson's dormitive principle at work in which behaviors are described as traits such as LD, which then are used to explain the behavior. |
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