Sentence examples for composite substance from inspiring English sources

Most fundamental among his many arguments against them is his conviction that a substantial form confers substantial being upon a composite substance.

Since Burley wanted to preserve the reality of quantity and its real distinction from substances and other accidents, he insists that quantity is a form inherent in the material part of a composite substance (EP, ch. de quantitate, fol. 29rb).

But why would Leibniz use a term like "composite substance" in the Principes de la Nature et de la Grace if it did not accurately reflect his considered position?

If every composite substance is a complex of matter and form, then each would be a hermaphrodite, rather than a male or a female as is the case with animals.

The Principes de la Nature et de la Grace, in contrast, is less rigorous (more exoteric) because it uses the term "composite substance" when composites are not substances, strictly speaking (Rutherford 1995, 281 2).

A series of hydrocarbons, predominantly nonacosane and hentriacontane, plus the methyl esters of palmitic, oleic, stearic, tetracosanoic, montanic and melissic acids were also detected in PRM27, signifying a composite substance, and which may indicate a presence of beeswax [22, 32].

These questions are crucial to an understanding of the unity of composite substances and their identity over time.

They require composite substances in order to properly exist.

He describes bodies as "composite substances" so that his reader will recognize that both simple substances and bodies are "real".

Different qualities observed in large composite substances are due to such different structural arrangements of their components.

In the Principes de la Nature et de la Grace Leibniz speaks of "composite substances" while in the Monadologie he only speaks of "composites".