Sentence examples for corporeal substances from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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.

The seven species of quantity are quantified by themselves, whereas other quantified things (for example: corporeal substances) are quantified in virtue of one or more of the seven species (EP, ch. de quantitate, fol. 29va).

Living corporeal substances are subject to death through the corruption of their substantial unity not so much the separation of soul from body, but the dissolution of the soul as the substantial form of the body.

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.