Sentence examples for existence of the material from inspiring English sources

Instead of trying to circumscribe every single existent and then offer an account of each in turn, Cavendish assumes the existence of the material objects in our local surroundings and argues that because our minds detect them, our minds are material, as is everything else that we come to encounter.

One should bear in mind, however, that all arguments against physicalism are also arguments for the irreducible and hence immaterial nature of the mind and, given the existence of the material world, are thus arguments for dualism.

This argument moves from the fact that he can doubt the existence of the material world, but cannot doubt the existence of himself as a thinking thing, to the conclusion that his thoughts belong to a nonspatial substance that is distinct from matter.

In "Eclaircissement VI," Malebranche urged that the idea of extension does reveal the possible existence of the material world, and that Descartes has shown that we have a probable argument for its actual existence deriving from our natural propensity to believe that there are bodies.

The IC leadership thought it important, for a variety of reasons, to alert the incoming President to the existence of this material, even though it was salacious and unverified.

Further reading: For a variation of the Sixth Meditation argument for the existence of the external material world, see Descartes' Prin.

The other LVDTs were not attached to the retrofitted specimens due to the existence of the retrofit materials on the surfaces of the columns and beams around the joint panel zone.

Because of the observed thin (<3 nm) intermixing layer and the <span class="lh">existence of the same materials (Cu and TaOx) on both sides of this interfacial layer, the exact composition at the Cu/TaOx interface was not easy to determine in this report.

(By contrast, the UK position taken on the advice of successive Law Officers, has been that it is for the Security Council to determine the existence of a material breach of the ceasefire).

My view is that we need to find a way of protecting people from material that they might deem obscene, while at the same time protecting the existence of such material and the freedom of those who wish to access it (whether or not they think it obscene).

A quick physics lesson: Antimatter obliterates its material counterpart out of existence in the material universe.