Sentence examples for a material substance from inspiring English sources

Treated at first as a purely metaphysical quality, phlogiston was later conceived as a material substance having weight and, sometimes, negative weight.

In slangy vernacular, no can turn into a material substance: the teenage title character in the 2007 movie "Juno" protests, "That's a big, fat sack of no!" Bauer-Griffin Online, a paparazzi photo blog, critiques celebrities with snarky headlines like "Kelly Preston Is a Bucket of 'No' " or "Phoebe Price, Pile of 'No.' " In our culture of negativity, all too often the noes have it.

Both Du Châtelet's and Voltaire's entries aimed to disprove the theory that fire is a material substance, and both were published along with the three winners (including the essay essay by Leonhard Euler, which took the top prize).

The correspondence between Elisabeth and Descartes begins with Elisabeth's asking probing questions about how Descartes can explain the ability of an immaterial substance to act on a material substance.

In an early paper ("Of Atoms") Edwards pointed out that the concept of a material substance is the concept of something subsisting by itself, standing "underneath," and keeping "up solidity and all other [physical] properties" (Edwards 1957–, vol. 6, 215).

This anticipates the question (and the implied answer) that was discussed by Locke, in the Essay IV, iii, 6, whether God may have superadded thought to a material substance.

The truth of the mater is that our food does not correspond to any material substance, but rather, to states of mind.

The theory of plurality of forms is instead the theory that there is a plurality of substantial forms in a given material substance.

And since the pioneering cosmological accounts put forward by his Milesian predecessors held that a single material substance underlay phenomena in all places and times it would be equally impossible for any individual to confirm such a universal claim on the basis of first-hand observation, hence know for certain that it was true even if in fact it was true.

For such philosophical theories do not, strictly speaking, assert the existence of one single entity which is what (36) says but only the existence of a single material substance along with entities of other kinds, such as properties or spatio-temporal regions.

According to Descartes there are two kinds of substances, a material, extended substance and an immaterial, thinking substance.