Sentence examples for between essence from inspiring English sources

He denied a real distinction between essence and existence and between the soul and its faculties.

Following al-Fārābī's lead, Avicenna initiated a full-fledged inquiry into the question of being, in which he distinguished between essence and existence.

He rejected Avicenna's distinction between essence and existence and Aristotle's distinction between substance and accidents, possibility and actuality, and matter and form on the ground that they are mere distinctions of reason.

Aristotle became, in Avicenna's hands, a much more systematic and coherent thinker than he really had intended to be; problems and solutions that were, at best, hinted at by Aristotle (e.g., the distinction between essence and existence or the relation between possible and necessary existence) were among the distinctive marks of Avicenna's own work.

An influential defender of the real distinction between essence and existence was Giles of Rome.

The so-called distinction between essence and existence reveals an unavoidable modal characterization of being.

To do justice to the nature of ontological concepts, Plato required a mythological approach in order to illuminate the distinction between essences and existence, which resisted conceptualisation.

On the same theme: Jean-Luc Godard's 1987 video "On S'est Tous Défilé," commissioned by Marithé and François Girbaud, breaks down conventional boundaries between found and confected style, between manner and essence, between artifice and reality.

In this way, Wyclif establishes a close connection between singular essence and essential being, on the one hand, and a real identity between universal and individual (that is, between universal essence and singular essence), on the other hand.

He draws arbitrary distinctions between this essence and period details that puzzle or distract contemporary audiences.

"It lacks an inherent 'suchness,' " he said, borrowing a Zen term for something between, say, "essence" and "gravitas".