Sentence examples for are non physical from inspiring English sources

It is discovered that housing location, housing design and public facilities are physical satisfaction criteria and security, social interaction and housing tenure are non physical criteria.

Trying to rebut the commonsensical dualist objection that surely "experiences are non-physical and physically inefficacious", he said that experiences should be (in fact, implicitly were) considered as the effects of certain stimuli and the causes of certain behaviour.

Negative numbers are non-physical but can arise in certain reconstruction methods such as FBP and after filtering.

For the ill-posed phase-field evolution equation, both the intermediate as well as the final states are non-physical.

So too are non-physical traits associated with elite performance; for example, stress resilience has a genetic component [18, 19], as does motivation to exercise [20].

A better way would be to require of any spelling out the notion of the physical, either the object-based account or the theory-based account, that it respect that fact that some ( uninstantiated) mental properties are non-physical.

Thirdly, can a physical thing have non-physical properties might it be that mental properties like "thinking of Vienna" or "perceiving redly" are non-physical properties of physical organisms?

Friends of the knowledge argument will say that the facts at issue are non-physical because they involve the exemplification of non-physical properties (e.g. of the property of having an experience with quality Q).

The reason mental states are irreducible is not because they are non-physical; rather, it is because mental states, as described by common-sense psychology, do not really exist.

After all, to claim that only concepts are real, that they have a mode of being outside of space and time, that they are non-physical and completely unaffected by any activity of a thinking subject, does not sound very different from statements that can rightly be attributed to, e.g., Hegel, or even ultimately Plato, and that are meant to assert ontological idealism.

If phenomenal characters are non-physical properties and if every physical event has a physical cause and if we exclude the possibility of overdetermination (where something is caused by two different causes that are both sufficient), then, arguably, whether or not a state has a particular phenomenal character cannot have any causal relevance.