Sentence examples for a primary substance. from inspiring English sources

Everything except primary substances is either predicable of a primary substance or present in a primary substance.

For if any one should render an account of what a primary substance is, he would render a more instructive account, and one more proper to the subject, by stating the species than by stating the genus.

Corresponding to that subject, one might think, is an entity of some kind, namely a primary substance.

Thus, everything in the category of substance that is not itself a primary substance is, ultimately, 'said of' primary substances.

The second is, like a primary substance, non-predicable, but it can be present in a subject.

Space is defined as "a primary substance or seat or immobile and incorporeal capacity, able to receive any body".

What could be the contrary of any primary substance, such as the individual man or animal?

According to the second method of questioning, we are to ask as many different questions as we can about a single primary substance.

He promptly dismisses the first possibility, since accidents inhere in an already constituted primary substance, that is, they follow the constitution of an individual substance rather than explain the constitution of that substance as an individual.

An aggregate is nothing but the union of one of the countless accidental forms of a macro-object with its primary substance, and a complex object is the union of two forms of a macro-object (one of which, i.e., the one designated directly or indirectly by the subject-term of the proposition, must be substantial) with and by means of the primary substance.

Emanationism, philosophical and theological theory that sees all of creation as an unwilled, necessary, and spontaneous outflow of contingent beings of descending perfection from an infinite, undiminished, unchanged primary substance.