Sentence examples for as a physical thing from inspiring English sources

And she likes art as a physical thing.

Ever since he was a child he'd experienced the lack of freedom as a physical thing.

"He got the stage, not just as a physical thing but a philosophical thing," Mr. Marsh said, "and that's difficult to get over in an exhibition".

"Viewers will be seeing something they know from a picture, but now they will be experiencing them as a physical thing," Mr. Eliasson said.

Immanuel Kant (1724 1804), providing a radical answer to the epistemological problem of time, wrote that we do not appreciate time objectively as a physical thing; that it is simply a pure form of sensible intuition.

Proponents of these arguments for materialism could respond by claiming either that knowledge of oneself as a mental thing is less certain than this alleged contrast implies, or that knowledge of oneself as a physical thing is more certain than it implies.

He passed away, so I guess my item is not as much a physical thing but a memory that brings on a certain sensation of a place.

Possession, in law, the acquisition of either a considerable degree of physical control over a physical thing, such as land or chattel, or the legal right to control intangible property, such as a credit with the definite intention of ownership.

It was a physical thing as well as a musical one.

Replies to this sort of objection have typically questioned whether it makes sense to think of an island (a physical thing) as existing necessarily or as having maximal excellence on a par with God.

For one thing, even if money has metamorphosed into bits, governments and central banks still control it as if it were a physical thing – and they manipulate it when it suits their political purposes.