The phrase "as an immaterial" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be used in contexts discussing abstract concepts or non-physical entities, but it typically requires additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "As an immaterial aspect of our existence, emotions often influence our decisions more than we realize."
Alternatives: "as an intangible" or "as a non-physical entity".
CIT said it decided not to disclose the surgery because it viewed it as an immaterial event; the company's board, however, was informed about the operation.
The major objection to the theory, that the ash of organic substances weighed less than the original while the calx was heavier than the metal, was of little significance to Stahl, who thought of phlogiston as an immaterial "principle" rather than as an actual substance.
Indeed, Clarke's most distinctive claim is that Descartes's account of the mind as an immaterial substance — his famous "dualism" of the mental and the physical, sometimes known as the doctrine of "the ghost in the machine" — is at best a provisional theory, aimed at providing support for the Catholic doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and sits uneasily with many other things that he wrote.
It is sometimes said that Descartes' dualism placed the mind outside nature by rendering it as an immaterial substance.
Desgabets also subscribed to the Cartesian conception of mind as an immaterial substance whose essence is thought.
No such thing exists in reality as an immaterial line or point, and yet the mathematician's thought is not empty or misleading.
There is a long tradition of philosophers' arguing for the existence of God on the grounds that the material (physical) universe as a whole requires an immaterial explanation.
After an opening discussion in which More argues that the proper subject of metaphysics is incorporeal being, or spiritual substance, More launches into a discussion of the nature of space, which he presents as an exemplary immaterial entity.
Reductive materialists can be viewed as eliminativists with respect to an immaterial soul.
A Cartesian dualist holds that mental states are distinct from any physical state of the subject, as they are states of an immaterial thinking substance.
But if identity is entirely prized apart from psychology in this way, and if the ego to be tracked is an immaterial substance (as it is, of course, on the Cartesian version), we are left with two related puzzles.
