Sentence examples for corporeal substance from inspiring English sources

Regarding BPM, it is necessary that there be one matter that is the substrate of substantial change, and this matter is the corporeal substance, that is, substance plus the form of corporeity (DOS 244 245).

As corporeal substance leaks away, detail emerges more luminously intact.

"Corporeal substance," said Spinoza, "can only be conceived as infinite, unique and indivisible".

"They seem to be involved and buried in their own corporeal substance," Hawthorne wrote, "and to look dimly forth at the outer world".

Startled, my first thought is how big curlews are; they have a heft to them, a corporeal substance to set against that bubbling, weightless song.

All things, with the sole exception of God, are constituted through the union of the two, the intellect no less than corporeal substance.

Gross bodies are grounded in organisms, or "corporeal substances," while corporeal substances are themselves grounded in simple substances, or "monads".

Did Leibnizian corporeal substances meet the criteria for being a substance in the strict sense of the term?

He proposes, therefore, that in corporeal substances it is also the substantial form that serves as their principle of individuation.

There is a debate in Cartesian scholarship as to the status of individual bodies and the number of corporeal substances to which Descartes is committed.

(G II 77/AG 80) It should be noted how strong Leibniz's claim is: he is arguing that Cartesian corporeal substances or any such chunks of matter are not real beings – at least not as real as simple substances.