Sentence examples for for immaterial things from inspiring English sources

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We are far more likely to experience real gratitude for immaterial things, such as the experience of feeling loved or an act of kindness.

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But that's not hygge; your ancestors would not recognise those things, and the sense of belonging is deeper, and stems from immaterial things.

The theory denies that immaterial or apparently immaterial things (such as minds) exist or else explains them away as being material things or motions of material things.

Movements and schools are arbitrary and immaterial things by which poetic history is told.

Berkeley contends that no material things exist, not just that some immaterial things exist.

In the cosmology of al-Ash'arî all immaterial things are considered "accidents" that inhere in a "substance" (jawhar).

The visitor does say (as noted in § 2 above) that "immaterial things, being finest and greatest, are revealed clearly only by means of a verbal account (logos) and by nothing else," and that "all things now said are for the sake of those" (Statesman 285e 286b).

(G VI 601/AG 209) As Leibniz says, "These souls are capable of performing reflective acts, and capable of considering what is called "I", substance, soul, mind – in brief, immaterial things and immaterial truths.

"Material things have a process of entropy and these immaterial things just change," he adds, comparing physical objects, hardware and analogue media to computer software.

(In defending his sense-data, Russell mistook a nonactual material thing for an actual immaterial thing).

The soul or spirit has nearly always been held to be an immaterial thing, and thus not part of the physical world.

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