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... BODY The soul - body relationship . As well as believing in the reality of Forms , Plato believed in the immortality of the human soul . The soul was , he thought , an entity that was fundamentally distinct from the body although it ...
... BODY The soul - body relationship . As well as believing in the reality of Forms , Plato believed in the immortality of the human soul . The soul was , he thought , an entity that was fundamentally distinct from the body although it ...
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... body and the circular fibres en- circle it . The body contents are liquids or tissues that can be deformed into different shapes , but they maintain a constant volume . If longitudinal muscles contract and the body shortens , it must ...
... body and the circular fibres en- circle it . The body contents are liquids or tissues that can be deformed into different shapes , but they maintain a constant volume . If longitudinal muscles contract and the body shortens , it must ...
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... body . These sets of muscle fibres act in various combinations to make the body long and thin , short and fat , or bent to one side or the other . These muscles are also used by some of the larger flatworms to pass waves of muscular ...
... body . These sets of muscle fibres act in various combinations to make the body long and thin , short and fat , or bent to one side or the other . These muscles are also used by some of the larger flatworms to pass waves of muscular ...
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