Sentence examples for as a material entity from inspiring English sources

Following BFO's definition of 'fiat object part', however, the latter is not possible, since 'fiat object part' is defined as a material entity that is part of an object.

It is an idea, not a material entity.

Definition: A fiat object part aggregate is a material entity that is a mereological sum of separate fiat object part entities and possesses non-connected boundaries.

This lack notwithstanding, however, the mounting successes of the various research strands associated with classical genetics led to a "hardening" of the belief in the gene as a discrete, material entity (Falk 2000, 323-26).

The contemporary understanding of gravity as not a strictly material entity, for instance, have made "physicalist" a more common description.

On a higher level of granularity, the adherence through chemical bonds or physical junctions between material entities of finer granularity is treated as coherence (Fig. 5): a given material entity may be treated as an aggregate of two cells that adhere to one another at the finer cellular level of granularity, and at the same time as a fiat body part at the coarser multicellular-organism level.

We suggest extending BFO to incorporate two additional categories of material entity as well as two subcategories for each of the three categories of material entity aggregates.

As a consequence, the differentiation of material entity aggregates into clusters and groups of material entities is bona fide and categorial.

It is only as atomic compounds (saṃghātastha, saṃcita) that atoms are subject to the same properties of resistance and destruction as composite material entities (see §4.2).

Instead, they held that Aristotle considered the soul as a material and therefore a mortal entity, operating during life only under the authority of universal reason and organically connected with the body, on the dissolution of which it would become extinct.

Thus, Carnap suggested that mental predicates be treated as applying to material entities: for example, "Carnap sees green" could be taken as meaning "the body Carnap is in the state of green-seeing," the state of green-seeing being a purely physical state that explains the behavioral facts that led one to ascribe the predicate "sees green" to Carnap in the first place.