Sentence examples for a substantive entity from inspiring English sources

Thus, if 'person' (pudgala) is taken to designate a substantive entity that is separate from the bundle of the five aggregates and unconditioned, then that cannot be the Buddhist view (per contra that is the Brahmanical view of the self).

Here consciousness itself is not typically treated as a substantive entity but merely the abstract reification of whatever property or aspect is attributed by the relevant use of the adjective "conscious".

The holistic view implies that the unit of selection is always and only a substantive entity.

A metaphysical self, conceived as an abiding and substantive entity, is therefore inconceivable.

This co-ordination is an emergent quality of the substantive entity that does not belong to any of its components.

One may think that a very long time ago in the prior-to-cell world, macromolecular replicators (the ancestors of genes) were substantive entities and evolutionary individuals.

Any influence the entity is exposed to interacts with the nature in a substantive manner.

A substantive disagreement.

She declined requests for a substantive interview.

But Robin then adds a substantive component.

A vote on whether a matter is procedural or substantive is itself a substantive question.