Sentence examples for be a metaphysical entity from inspiring English sources

Unlike the soul, which is clearly supposed to be a metaphysical entity that is not sensible, for example, the sum total of all appearances refers specifically to spatio-temporal objects or events.

Since, considering that the self is not a metaphysical entity (mental substance) but has rather to be comprehended as and replaced by an inner model of self representation (as e.g. Thomas Metzinger does [ 43]), this changes the methodological approach to self and identity in a fundamental way.

Kant thus spends a considerable amount of time in the sections on the paralogisms noting repeatedly that no object is given in transcendental self-consciousness, and thus that the rational psychologist's efforts to discern features of the self, construed as a metaphysical entity, through reason alone are without merit.

Like the legal scholar and philosopher Jeremy Bentham, highly influential in the 19th century, Griffith was scathing of attempts to refashion law as a metaphysical entity.

The anatomical heart was the haty, the word ib referring to the heart as a metaphysical entity embodying not only thought, intelligence, memory, and wisdom, but also bravery, sadness, and love.

It was a metaphysical overtaking.

"That's a metaphysical question," he said.

"A museum or gallery is a metaphysical space," says Mr Piano.

Anti-Semitism is a metaphysical passion, not a materialist one.

The visualization approach is a metaphysical paradigm called natural interaction.

To most people, immortality is a metaphysical concept.