The phrase "a material basis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the foundational or physical aspects of a concept, theory, or argument.
Example: "The researchers emphasized that their findings were grounded in a material basis, which provided a solid foundation for their conclusions."
Alternatives: "a physical foundation" or "a tangible basis".
"I learned that very little of a material basis is necessary," said Ms. Olds, recalling the outdoor balcony she lived on in Badel.
On the basis of this ladderlike conception were built systems of rising transcendency, starting from a material basis and rising to a spiritual pinnacle.
Amid such stresses, mere social conservatism is not enough: As Noah Millman of the American Conservative put it recently, "a marriage culture requires a material basis" that seems out of reach for too many Americans.
Ideas have a material basis, and our only access to the material world is through ideas: two facts which, together, ought to motivate us to seek to overcome our talk about materialism and idealism, either in the ordinary or the philosophical sense, as if these were two clearly demarcated accounts of the world.
Do mind and consciousness have a material basis?
There must be an additional conception of information for biology because biological information (based on nucleic acids) is a communications system with a material basis.
These kinds of systems show very high volumetric storage densities on a materials basis.
The latter property has proven difficult to quantify on a materials basis because it depends on extrinsic effects.
So, for example, Rawls states that the role of a citizen's right of personal property "is to allow a sufficient material basis for a sense of personal independence and self-respect, both of which are essential for the development and exercise of the two moral powers" (Rawls 1993, 298).
I have no idea whether consciousness has a purely material basis.
Carbon isotope diagrams presented by Dai et al. (2012) also show that all tight sandstone gas in China is coal-derived, supporting the fact of coal-measure source rocks as a favorable material basis.
