I do not believe in an impersonal universe – one made up of random collections of matter and energy.
But just how these ultradense collections of matter form isn't as well understood.
Those are the disk-shaped collections of matter, such as gas and dust, that surround black holes.
Baconian natural histories were, in the first instance, vast collections of matters of fact derived from observation and experiment and which were to provide the foundation for natural philosophical theorising.
Out front: a hot young receptionist, a fridge full of free drinks and a carefully curated collection of reading matter.
"You're just made of paper," yelled his unfulfilled, unliterary father, whose collection of printed matter ran to little more than a copy of How to Make Explosives.
For the collection of particulate matter, unloaded clean strainers were inserted in an oven for about 24 h at 220°C.
The road to true artificial intelligence is not paved with a single discipline, but rather a collection of specialized subject matters, techniques and theories that together interact to create some form of intelligence.
Peter of Spain has been established as the medieval author of a work that became widely known as Summule logicales magistri Petri Hispani (Collection of Logic Matters of Master Peter of Spain).
There was something obsolescent about Toulon who looked an unfamiliar collection of individuals, no matter how expensively assembled, rather than a team, churning out the expected moves and too easily surprised.
