Sentence examples for an external material from inspiring English sources

Descartes' strategy for proving an external material world has two main parts: first, he argues for the externality of the causes of sensation; second, he argues for the materiality of these external causes.

The existence of an external material world remains in doubt.

From these two steps it follows that there exists an external material world.

Granting the success of the argument, my sensations are caused by an external material world.

It is often unnoticed that the conclusion of Descartes' argument for the existence of an external material world leaves significant scepticism in place.

Even if a person, in a veridical case, is directly aware of an external material object in the way that the disjunctivist claims, that experience is still subjectively indiscernible from that which occurs in cases of hallucination or illusion.

This forms a special material which consists of a hard external material and a tough internal material which is ideal for railway operation.

An additional set of trials employing the entrainment of an external combustible material further confirms the importance of particle combustion in explosive fireballs.

It was concluded that AA plates could be used as an external strengthening material to enhance both the strength and ductility of RC beams in flexure.

The same considerations done for the setup with the tissue apply to the case of the Plexiglas shield, but in this case, we expect a higher production and transmission in the external material.

Now I am not telling you to totally ignore the external material world, for that is an extreme and it is always a good thing to have a balance.