Sentence examples for existence of matter from inspiring English sources

Why turn away the gift of Bishop Berkeley, who famously denied the existence of matter and became obsessed with advocating cures for constipation?

Kant's transcendentalism is set in contrast to those of two of his predecessors the problematic idealism of René Descartes, who claimed that the existence of matter can be doubted, and the dogmatic idealism of George Berkeley, who flatly denied the existence of matter.

Einstein later abandoned the principle when it was realized that inertia is implicit in the geodesic equation of motion and need not depend on the existence of matter elsewhere in the universe.

The universal spirit, a striver, would seem to be God, clad in transparent robes of Kantian idealism: "Idealism saith: matter is a phenomenon, not a substance.... Yet, if it only deny the existence of matter, it does not satisfy the demands of the spirit.

In his opinion, only the common existence of matter and dimension cause the impermeability of the body.

Bishop Berkeley's phenomenal idealism reduced ordinary tables and chairs to collections of ideas and denied the existence of matter.

When Samuel Johnson was asked how he would refute Bishop Berkeley's philosophical proposition about the non-existence of matter, he famously kicked a stone and said: "I refute it thus!" Not having a convenient stone, I pick up the nearest object that lies to hand.

In positing the existence of prime matter, Scotus envisions matter as existing without any form; in denying universal hylomorphism, he envisions form as existing without any matter.

The existence of nonluminous matter, or "dark matter," was later confirmed in the 1970s by American astronomers Vera Rubin and W. Kent Ford.

Just as existence manifests itself through creation of matter, nonexistence manifests itself through creation of consciousness..

In this vein, we may note Ibn Gairol's claim that the existence (esse) of matter is in the wisdom of God (Fons Vitae 5.10, p. 275).