Sentence examples for an existing substance from inspiring English sources

Could an existing substance exist for a certain length of time and then go out of existence?

Could an existing substance have failed to exist?

In 2006 India denied Novartis a patent for Glivec, calling it an unpatentable modification of an existing substance, imatinib.

Here the adjective "individual" distinguishes an existing substance from common or second substance.

Spinoza's answer is again no, since that would mean that an existing substance causes its own self-destruction, a violation of Spinoza's doctrine that "No thing can be destroyed except through an external cause" (IIIp4).

In 2006, the Indian Patent Office rejected Novartis' patent application for Glivec under Section 3 d) of the Indian Patents Act, stating that the drug was a modification of an existing substance, imatinib, and therefore represented a case of 'evergreening' [ 15].

Substance dualists argue that the mind is an independently existing substance, whereas property dualists maintain that the mind is a group of independent properties that emerge from and cannot be reduced to the brain, but that it is not a distinct substance.

But since all existing substances must nonetheless have causes and reasons for their existence, the fact that a substance exists must be explained entirely by the substance itself.

That is, all existing substances must be self-caused and hence self-explained (Ip7).

In the case of substances, Spinoza claims that every existing substance necessarily exists (Ip7d).

Substance dualists believe that thinking is a function of a non-material, separately existing, substance that somehow "combines" with the body to make a person.