Sentence examples for a universal matter from inspiring English sources

In order to kick the issue into touch, some Democrats – including, to his shame, President Obama – have refused to acknowledge gay marriage as a universal matter of equality; instead, saying it is an issue for each individual state.

As a universal matter, I don't have an answer.

Feng Shui is a complex, 3,000-year-old Chinese philosophy based on the art of placement, harmony, balance, and the fundamental principle that cosmic energy (chi) unites all universal matter.

His contributions to chemistry were based on a mechanical "corpuscularian hypothesis"—a brand of atomism which claimed that everything was composed of minute (but not indivisible) particles of a single universal matter and that these particles were only differentiable by their shape and motion.

For Ibn Gabirol, this analogy helps highlight his view of the unfolding divine Wisdom / Will giving way to a cosmos which is a complex blend of matters and forms, with a principle of pure universal matter and pure universal form at the very root of all existence.

When Newton took for granted that there is just one kind of universal matter and refused to include gravity as a primary property of matter because of worries about the ontological status of force, he was playing the role of a natural philosopher in the tradition of the mechanical philosophy.

In fact, the intellect is the first being in which universal matter and form are conjoined.

This suggests that the difference between matter and form has some counterpart in the Godhead and also that universal matter is superior to universal form.

Some of Ibn Gabirol's statements seem to support the superiority of universal matter; other passages, however, appear to imply the superiority of universal form.

But knowing a secret and when to share it is, as Leonard Garment writes, "the official and unofficial coin of the realm, the universal matter out of which individuals create their status, power and wealth".

In addition to many other changes from Plotinus and the Theology of Aristotle, one special point of difference is the reference here to universal matter (see section 5).