Sentence examples for forms and substances from inspiring English sources

Both these distinctions are illusory according to Psillos because the scientific revolution banished mysterious forms and substances that might not be fully describable in structural terms.

These remarks on the relations between forms and substances bring us to the core of Alyngton's ontology: the doctrine of substance, developed in the fifth chapter of his commentary on the Categories.

This is a political netherworld, in which the forms and substance of both democracy and authoritarianism are clearly visible.

"What gives the world around us form and substance is our contribution," he says.

Fifth, the EU has "been weak both in terms of form and substance".

This modern form of political constitutionalism has proven constitutional in both form and substance.

"The infant had form and substance, but it was dried and withered," with a "brownish appearance," Lieutenant Ward said today.

He said he advised Enron that both "form and substance" were required to make it an equity investment.

But here, in "The Flâneur," as in the novels, it can be argued that form and substance are happily married.

Mr. Arif, the opponent to the measure in the European Parliament, said that ACTA was "wrong in both form and substance".

But Judge Rakoff rejected the original plan, saying that Mr. Breeden found aspects of it "grossly excessive or otherwise deficient in both form and substance".