According to many of the world's intellectual traditions, each person is a real, individual substance with a true essence or self.
But the frustration and disappointment is that we only ever get a photograph of the other, an image of their visible self – a mere shadow of the true substance we really wanted to see.
The world is an interconnected system of minds and ideas in which the only true substance and cause is an infinite and omnipotent love.
Then one day I found myself in a 3-hour google vortex involving the true substance of Kylie's lips and who Scott Disick was fucking.
Care must be taken to differentiate a true addiction (substance use disorder) from pseudo addiction due to under treatment of pain or other aberrant drug-related behaviors [ 29].
Ever since Rudolf Virchow in 1858 publicly announced his apprehension of neuroglia being a true connective substance, this concept has been evolving to encompass a heterogeneous population of cells with various forms and functions.
It is an unending controversy whether Spinoza was a pantheist, or an atheist who called nature 'God' because it was the one true substance and existed necessarily.
"The teeth of knitted gears / Turn slowly through the night, / But the true substance bears / The hammer's weight," he wrote in "The Adamant".
Although Mr Putin has often seemed a stickler when it comes to respecting constitutional formalities, he and his advisers have become ever more blatant in their flouting of democracy's true substance.
The playing of games (and of games within games) is the true substance of every "Sandbaggers" episode, which is mighty convenient, since Yorkshire Television obviously lacked the budget for the sort of flamboyant Hong Kong-style action spectacle that "Alias" now treats us to each week.
